Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.