Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

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.

When sorrow's cup is filled up to the brim, the slightest touch of memory can cause tears to spill again.

Expectation is the dirtiest word in a traveler's vocabulary.

Colonel Graff: We won! That's all that matters.Ender Wiggin: No. The way we win matters.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

Snooki is now a published author. I'm blaming Sarah Palin. She lowered the bar.

I do not deal with subtleties; I am only a lawyer.

His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.