Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.