You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.

When you love someone you let them take care of you.

Jacob's room is the place entropy goes to die.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.