I know you'll think this is crazy, but all I want to do is hold you, and I think that if you'll let me do that just for a few seconds, I can walk away, and never speak to you again.

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.

The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

There's a certain nostalgia and romance in a place you left.

It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Amateur feed on hope. Professionals work.

We chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.

There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are.

You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

It is doubtful that the government knows much more than the public does about how government [Economic] policies will work.