I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

Nobody's seen Jesus in years.

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called.

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.