I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Non-fiction can distort

This time last year I would have run to Sam Hamilton to talk.""Maybe both of us have got a piece of him, " said Lee. Maybe that's what immortality is.

The last degree of love is when He gave Himself to us to be our Food; because He gave Himself to be united with us in every way.

Well, you know, for me, I think Spanish food is festive.

The Way to Heaven has no favorites. It is always with the good man.

I love someone who can make me laugh. And someone who's secure - I think that's sexy.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.