The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything.

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I’ve read so often that I’ve internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.

The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent

It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

When we raise our children to Shine, the future becomes brighter!

Lacey?" He bowed his head until his face was inches from mine. His smile was still in place, and as his eyes swept over my face, it widened. "Uh-oh. Did you break?

Asking questions opens up new doors, new opportunities, and new ideas. It helps you think, create, and discover.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

The world is dealing with issues of immigration, deindustrialization, and poverty.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

The more people in need, the better the Democrat Party is, in their minds, 'cause that's their source of power.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.