I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.

I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Maybe everything we've ever done has been for love.

In our house, all you hear is groaning.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

Helping a billion people connect is amazing, humbling and by far the thing I am most proud of in my life.

Foolish. Stupid. I knew it. I knew my reaction was unreasonable, bu the heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. Blaise Pascal said that, and I've always found it to be true.

I keep thinking I'm a grown up, but I'm not.