A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.