Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know

Sometimes a simple focused thought can change the whole world.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

Subject matter must be normal in the sense that it does not appear sought after so much as simply happening to one.

You don't need a special task. Every task is special.

Those who stop marketing to save money are like those who stop a clock to save time.

It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.