Sometimes the saddest stories take the fewest words.

How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

Fear is ... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

But the past is long, and the future is short.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

We were a different kind of Christian, the quiet, reasonable kind, a breed embarrassed by the mention of miracles.

I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.

My goal was just to tell the unlikely story in a way that would feel as convincing as possible.

Don’t underestimate the dreams everyone has

Being Happy is not a blessing to everyone!! it's an attitude!!

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

Being right can never compete with doing well.

Real estate prices are way out of whack with what people earn.

the most successful marriages were always based on both partners feeling that they had done rather well for themselves.

I am a Moroccan writer of French expression.

My sense is that economic anxiety means electoral volatility.

I missed 100% of the shots I didn't take

Sometimes you have to face up to your fears to realize that they aren't actually real.