I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.