There is no exit from the circle of one's beliefs.

Sure, ” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?”Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror.Besides everything, I mean, ” she said.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico

Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

I'm not a bling-bling guy; I can't pull it off. I just look like an idiot.

When one heart opens to another heart, it usually results in love.

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?