... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.

Are anybody's parents typical?

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

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.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.