The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Personally, I like the social novel. I like writing that gets in and under the hood and looks about - at what's going on. But I don't say to any writer that that's absolutely what they should do.

I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.