I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

Now that I live in Southern California, my current world certainly speaks to me, and I sense that my next book will have a more American and southerly setting. But that's certainly not to say I won't be back to Leaford.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

When we talk about God, I think what most of us mean is some greater thing, some higher power that can help us access our own strength or give us strength.

The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.