When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.

I still believe in getting married in churches and baptizing children. I go through those motions.

And never forget, there is memory.

I don't begin a novel until I have written, not just the last sentence, but usually, as a result thereof, many of the surrounding final paragraphs, so that in addition to knowing what happens, I know what the voice is.

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.