Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

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.

Only loyal love knows the sacred path to a faithful heart

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

I think the people we meet in life and the loves of our lives are very, very important in what we become, like change us - when it's right, probably change us for the best.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

I'm not a control freak.

If I get no sleep the night before a show, I feel that performance is the best one.

I miss the Swedish women on the first day of spring cause they all just blossom in the most incredible way.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

The emancipation of women must be the work of women themselves, independent of the class struggle.