I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You narrow hope when you define it.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government.

All the creations of God stretch out infinitely. All times, past, present and future for all beings, worlds unimagined

Nothing can be further than the truth.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

Translation presents not merely a paradigm but the utmost case of engaged literary interpretation

It hurts because it mattered.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

I consider my comedy to be dramatic comedy. I always wanted music underscoring the dramatic monologue. It was always drama with comedy, in my head.

As women, we need to embrace our bodies and be confident with who we are.