I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

<...> I’ve never believed there is any animal more dangerous than a human being. I never will. It’s the intelligence. It’s the mind that makes it so.

Look, I'm not a demon here. I don't eat babies or kick puppies. I just tell the truth." She shrugged. "Can I help it if that makes the liars of the world angry?

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

Food is a part of our contract with life.

Even more real than the disaster that has befallen our brothers and sisters must be our own willingness to sacrifice and help with the healing.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of #‎ libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

This medal (the National Book Award) together with my American Express card, will identify me worldwide ... except at Bloomingdale's.

Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.