Her sister, Holly McGhee, is an agent, and she's my agent in New York. She's Alison's agent too. Even though Alison lives here in Minneapolis, I met Alison through Holly, when Holly came to Minneapolis to visit Alison.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

What was it like...to have someone who knew you would always return and who welcomed you with open arms?

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart.