Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.