She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.