Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are sick about that. We did the best we could.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

If somebody says 'I love you' to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol holder requires? 'I love you, too'.

i just know no one is a friend like writing .

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

There are nine orders of angels, to wit, angels, archangels, virtues, powers, principalities, dominations, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim

My work is one of my passions, so I want to treat it with great importance, whatever the project or role.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

I don't make a career plan. I take things the way they come.

When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.

Ah me, how weak a thing The heart of woman is!