After Margaret moved to Florida they continued to stay in touch in a Christmas card/life-milestone way.

Everything sounds so much better when it comes out of a man's mouth

But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a...

It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

A white lie is not a lie at all. It is where you tell the truth but you do not tell all of the truth. This means that everything you say is a white lie because when someone says, for example, 'What do...

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!

We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then.

He doesn't talk to me, he behaves as if the act of talking physically pains him and

It is one of the worst things of sentiment that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that what is spoken.

There are no simple words. I don't know why I thought I could hide anything behind language.

The inventor knows HOW to borrow.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

What exactly did you find in Atlanta?Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out souvenirs. Some peach preserves. A couple of T-shirts. A snow globe. And, um, these not-really-Chinese...

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.

Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.