Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

If you focus on sandbagging the beachhead, you can ignore the tsunami that's approaching. Try it any other way and you'll go crazy.

It was a strange thing, to still be in love with your wife and to not know if you liked her. What would happen when this was all over? Could you forgive someone if she hurt you and the people you love, if she truly believed she was only trying to help? I had filed for divorce, but that wasn't what I really wanted. What I really wanted was for all of us to go back two years, and start over. Had I ever really told her that?

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!