A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

Hunger is the best seasoning.