Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.

We invent what we love and what we fear.

I think the sport of wrestling, which I became involved with at the age of 14... I competed until I was 34, kind of old for a contact sport. I coached the sport until I was 47. I think the discipline of wrestling has given me the discipline I have to write.

Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don’t believe in the resurrection, you’re not a believer." “If you don’t believe in Easter,” Owen Meany said. “Don’t kid yourself—Don’t call yourself a Christian.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.