I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Life is many things, but if you don't try to control it, it will take hold of you and ruin you.

Will you show me what you really look like? You don't sparkle, do you?

In my wildest dreams I never thought - well, I never thought I'd work.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

That celebrated marriage of science and art, photography, seemed at the time to join together how we look at the world, art, with how we were coming to know it, science.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference.

I find that the mask of the critic is to have distance.

We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.