I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.

Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life, Leonard.