It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.

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.

wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

I've always been interested in miracles, or the miraculous of the unexplained. I don't scoff at what makes people believe or want to believe. I think I understand the tremendous attraction of the mysteries of the church to the same degree that I understand and appreciate the frustration people feel, especially believers, with the human rule-making arm of the church, with the not-miraculous part of the church - any church.

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

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.