Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

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.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.

Keep passing the open windows.