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 is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

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

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

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