We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.