A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

The age of the book is not over. No way... But maybe the age of some books is over. People say to me sometimes 'Steve, are you ever going to write a straight novel, a serious novel' and by that they mean a novel about college professors who are having impotence problems or something like that. And I have to say those things just don't interest me. Why? I don't know. But it took me about twenty years to get over that question, and not be kind of ashamed about what I do, of the books I write.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.