I much prefer whining to counting my blessings.

Naturally curly hair is a curse, and don't ever let anyone tell you different.

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The first rule of snooping is to come at it sideways.

Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.

Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.

one year as his wife, and id have become one of those abject, quaking women who look at their husbands when someone asks them a question. I've always despised that type, but I see how it happens now

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or music - enables people to transcend any barrier man has yet devised.

Dreams give rise to visions in the heart of a man

If I lose you because of the blind idiot I've been then I will be the one who is destroyed

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom.

I'm more interested in writing about the personal stories of people. Sometimes I don't agree with them.

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

You don't know what mental telepathy exists from the human to the animal.