What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand.

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need