Deep, deep trouble. Can't rival the dead for love. Lose every time.

Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.

I like marriage. The idea.

If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.

Make up a story... For our sake and yours forget your name in the street; tell us what the world has been to you in the dark places and in the light. Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Some literature is knowledge, some is just data. But if I can get a "happy" ending - which is when for the characters I'm writing about, something happens that they move from wherever they are in the beginning to knowledge or wisdom, they know something they never would have acknowledged or realized if it hadn't been for my book - that for me is what literature does.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.