When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.