Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

The way in which sports focuses more on the peccadilloes, lives and putative personalities of athletes and less on the finer points of playing games, I've become less interested in it. I don't want to write sports profiles.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.