A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.

In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

A ruling passion gives to a shelf of novels the unity of a system.