The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

Greatness is not just upon 'a few chosen ones

Online life is about premeditation.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

Every bubble has two components: something - some real trend, and a misconception about that trend.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

If you've ever had somebody try to sell you something - people who can sell, they really are not manipulating you. They are selling themselves.

The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do.

Try to stick to free weights as much as possible as they work the stabilizers as well as the main muscles being targeted!

My laptop has freed me to travel.

One of my favorite French singers, Alain Bashung, was the expert at creating his own universe; no one knows what he's talking about, even he doesn't know because it's so poetic.