Imagination is what has driven human progress since very early times.

The question is always the answer, provided you want the answer badly enough.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

What is merely a hypothesis to anyone else is an overwhelming temptation to a wizard.

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

We love people differently at different stages of our knowledge of them. As love changes its hape and its nature, we have to decide what we're going to do about that love on any given day.

As Cinderella would probably tell you, even a prince who only recognizes your footwear is preferable to a lifetime of cleaning grates.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

You narrow hope when you define it.

You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.

This is what parenting involved: hard decisions. She was his mother, she reminded herself. He didn't have to like her.

The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say “no” to almost everything.

If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

Painting is so much more than the materials.

A basket of freshly baked pastries like scones make breakfast easy for your host the next day.

I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.

As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

Revenge commonly hurts both the offerer and sufferer; as we see in a foolish bee, which in her anger invenometh the flesh and loseth her sting, and so lives a drone ever after.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

Farm animals, like dairy cows - who by nature are vegans - are routinely force-fed fish to increase their weight and milk production.