The fact is that most husbands, regardless of religion - it's an old-fashioned gender divide where the husband wants to stay home and the wife is the one who drags herself and her children to whatever spiritual center they're going to.

I'm most connected to myself when I'm alone in a room, moving my hand across a page. That's when I feel most like me.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Our teachers are everywhere. Our teachers are right in front of us, and take so many forms. All we need to do is to open our eyes, to be open to and aware of the possibilities. Otherwise, we walk sightless among miracles.

We are tyrannized by our options.

What's more important that spiritual life? It seems to me it's the bedrock of everything essential about being human.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.