Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.

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 it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation, the continuing hydrogen explosions on the countless suns, the heaving of planetary bodies, all was enfolded in a patient, waiting love.