I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters interesting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects.

Everybody is a True Believer. Everybody has a little nugget they're convinced of that is the opposite of the nugget on the other side. And they're convinced it's fact.

Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

I don't make my own schedule - it's constructed around my sons' school schedules.

Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

What is the size of this universe? The size of this universe is whatever the size of your dreams!

Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes to make your dreams come true. Start now and dedicate yourself for success. Shoot for the stars and make it happen.

Being a mother is not a matter of running through a succession of chores.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Actually, I only have a few friends in real life. And when I say friends, I'm referring to those people who I've known since the 1960s.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else.

Happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.