If you're afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do?" Make them stay." And if you can't do that, or don't know how to?" Ellie shrugged. "I don't know." Yes, you do. In fact, you've done it. You leave first," Coop said, "so you don't have to watch them walk away.

There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?