I don't believe that it's true that the poor will always be with us. I think that kind of pious fatalism is just an excuse for keeping things the way they are.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

Sentences that begin with "all women" are never, never true.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

You wouldn't want to be caught wearing cheap perfume would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume on your conduct?

Passion for books is pleasurable.

They were like lightning and rain, existing together but clashing at their very natures.

I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

We live as if we know how everything will turn out. I certainly lived that way. But we don't know anything. Really, we don't.

I try to go to the gym three times a week. And I have to watch what I eat. I'm a normal person.

Fools laugh at the Latin language. -Rident stolidi verba Latina

Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.