One does not know where love will take you.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.