I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

If your face is going to “talk” for you anyway, you might as well have it communicate something positive.

51 years ago, when Hillary Clinton was working on the Goldwater campaign, Bernie Sanders was getting locked up for my rights. 50 years later he's talking about doing something and not talking.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.

Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.