There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

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.

Learn, because life is ahead of you. Live, because death is before you. Listen, because wisdom is all around you. Love, because God is inside of you.

Always remember, any book you haven’t read is still a new book.

Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.

Fire is fire.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Diplomats do not know how to negotiate, they only know how to keep their job.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.