Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do; I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.