She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

I just admire my mother very much.

I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something different.

There's no love without pain.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

Whatever you think today becomes what you are tomorrow.

I never thought anything about age. I believed sincerely and still do, that there’s nothing I cannot do. I believe that all the power in the universe is right inside me.

This hour I tell things in confidence/ I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you.