It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Some people are just born human, the rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.

Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.