I love a boy with sun-kissed hair, With ocean storms in his bright blue eyes, I love a boy who drinks my tears when I cry.

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

I believe in the perfect outcome of every situation in my life.

The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.

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.

It is only when your awareness reaches the heart that great progress from your practice is possible.

Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.

The greatest players fit with the team. They play within the team's style, rather than asking the team to change its style.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.