If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.

Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.

The only way we know it's true is that we both dreamed it. That's what reality is. It's a dream everyone has together.

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly