None of those other things makes a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

A literary achievement of the highest order.

I think of myself as a really happy person.

What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Fiction is socially meaningful.