Hungry ears are sharp ones.

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.

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

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

The problem with love is this: It dies. And when it does, you die with it.

To experiment with love is to play with fire.

For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Create the temperature of your passion!

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

When I set a goal, I work hard to achieve it.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.