We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Nobody cares much whether you write or not. You just have to do it

Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.

You forget about it whether it was 15-2 or 3-2. It's still a loss. It doesn't matter what the score was if we win tomorrow.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

What is the difference between a Doctor of Medicine and a Doctor of Theology? One prescribes drugs, while the other might as well be on drugs.

The idea of a young thin woman who weighs 100 pounds driving herself around in a 4,000 pound SUV is laughable.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.