Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

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.

If Christians read Holy Scripture, they will grow in the Knowledge of Christ. And be filled with the grace of God.

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

In early 1993, a hostile observer might have had grounds for thinking that the Unix story was almost played out, and with it the fortunes of the hacker tribe.

We don't want to fight, but by jingo if we do, We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too.

Acting has been very useful to me.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.

Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning.

I think music gives so much inspiration. I listen to all kinds of music: pop, hip-hop, everything. I also love classical music.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.