I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

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.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.

In my entire career? I am so sick of being asked, What's it like to kiss Mel Gibson?

Sarah Palin. Remember Sarah Palin? She is adorable. She is back on the campaign trail. Really. She's going to campaign in the Senate runoff in Georgia. As soon as she finds out where Georgia is.

All [Barack Obama ] is doing, instead of working on your jobs and your companies leaving for Mexico and other places, he's campaigning for crooked Hillary [Clinton]. That's all he does.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Our purity lies in our originality. Our intuition lies in our innocence.

Color deceives continuously.

Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.

Fashion is a movie. Every morning when you get dressed, you direct yourself.