The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

I want to say less, and it's easier to say less.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I have a different purpose in writing each novel. Some of them seem more similar than others, but the purposes are always different.

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.