I wasn't surprised to find myself in the back of Mr. Klein's store, wearing only my undershirt and panties, surrounded by sable.

Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Some people are your family no matter when you find them, and some people are not, even if you are laid, still wet and crumpled, in their arms.

Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

Be real and unashamed. Even of your faults.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.

There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.

He was so much in love with me that I could have asked him for the moon and stars, and he would have gathered them for me.

I think I’m dying to get to know a particular guy. Then he opens his mouth and ruins it.

My husband Chris, the thing he likes most about me is that I'm very positive and easily very happy.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

The closest thing to eternal life on earth is a Government Program

If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.