I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

I don't want to impede free press, by the way. The last thing I would want to do is that.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

It's just that I learned a while ago that the best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much.

I think no matter what kind of life you have, whether it looks one way to people or another way, you always have moments when you imagine a different life.

When two good men contend about principles, both are always right.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.