The truth is that I hate to think about other people reading my books," Miranda said. "It's like watching someone go through the box of private stuff that I keep under my bed.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

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

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.