I always thought that you could do worse than find yourself dying in the company of a devoted former student.

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

Plot is a map and I begin with it. It is what made me admire the novels of the 19th century; that the stories are foreshadowed. TheyÕre going someplace.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Before you can write anything, you have to notice something.

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.