Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.

I have changed my definition of tragedy. I now think tragedy is not foul deeds done to a person (usually noble in some manner) but rather that tragedy is irresolvable conflict.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.