Wally Lamb

“Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.”

“A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.”

“That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.”

“I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.”

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.”

“People walk in the door because they need you to take care of them -- to feed them or fix them.”

“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.”

“I love the most the students with troubled lives.”

“The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.”

“I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.”