Pain is the biggest power of love.

Only God gets things right the first time.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

If a writer knows what he or she is doing, I'll go along for the ride. If he or she doesn't... well, I'm in my fifties now, and there are a lot of books out there. I don't have time to waste with the poorly written ones.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?