There are people we treat wrong and later, we're prepared to treat other people right.

She has always been a bystander in family destruction, never realizing she herself possessed the capacity to inflict it.

We have to make mistakes, its how we learn compassion for others

In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.

I'm not afraid of writing about sensitive subjects, but I want to be careful how I do so and I know not all readers will think I have been, of course.

I think that there's some confusion in my own mind about what I believe.

... nothing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.