No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.