But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

I love you, not because you are perfect, but because I created a place for you in my heart.

In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things.

Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

I am the form and I am the hollow, the thrust and the contour

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

I was stained by failure.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.