I go to McDonald's at least once a week. I always get a No. 2.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

Tradition was safety

Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not, Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.

Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

Cat angels are the reason there are no mice angels.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

I would like to think of Badfinger's music as mood music. Something with a bit of feeling, whether it's hard or soft.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.