The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.

In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

The best mirror is an old friend.

To quote Gandhi yet again, "If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

I may be clean cut on the outside, but make no mistake... I like to get very, very dirty when nobody's looking.

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

It was all in His hands now - as it had always been.

Now I just bake when I'm bored and I'm not working and I don't want to go out. I'll just get recipes and bake them here for myself, honestly.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.

I've been thrown out of schools and fired from jobs. I don't want to work. I can honestly say I haven't done an honest day's work in my life.

They write songs about California girls for a reason.