He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

Human beings are remarkable - at what we can learn to live with. If we couldn't get strong from what we lose, and what we miss, and what we want and can't have, then we couldn't ever get strong enough, could we? What else makes us strong?

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.

Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.