I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I love seeing teachers outside of school. It's like seeing a dog walk on its hind legs.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

I think I grew up, stopped worrying about what people thought of me, and whether things were going to turn out OK. I'm concentrating on doing the best work I can do and letting it go at that.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch, but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well.

As countries embrace mass higher education, the cost of maintaining universities increases dramatically relative to an elite system.

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

My idea of paradise is a straight line to goal

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.