Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

To a life that seizes Upon content, Locality seems But accident.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

Do not make the mistake of thinking that the soul is inside you, because if the soul is inside you, you will be outside it.

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen

Creating is no problem - problem solving is not creating.

The marks on our lives are like music notes on the page--they sing a song.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.