Our mission in life is not to discover our fate as we go along, or even to procreate, but rather to fill up the endless gray void that is time.

She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.

I feel like I don't have all the ingredients a person is supposed to have.

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

It is a rule of nature that taking a day off on the farm sets a person back at least a week.

We all need people to tell us that we were the ones who had been deeply wronged.

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

It's all a big old chain. There isn't one unconnected link.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.

Don't settle for anyone just to have a someone. Be patient. Have faith and wait for the right one.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

I've always loved a challenge.

Women are much more honourable than men.

He who frees a bird from its cage is surely a holy person!

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

I'm a mother, and that's really important. Today, the mother and the musician can sit next to each other. Even when the musician is out there in full swing, the mother doesn't get switched off.

People talk about "job creation," as if that had ever been the aim the industrial economy. The aim was to replace people with machines.