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

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.