I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice. Not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God. I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

I've always been slow but I'm even slower now. I'm more into the waiting, or I guess I'm more patient about the waiting.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

In increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us -- not always in one momentous event but often in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss.