We sort of read two or three big newspapers but we don't get the flavor of the local events, the local news as much.

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.

Master the art of finding something to celebrate about in each moment and life will become an exciting adventure

Housing without people, and people without housing.

If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Inevitably, as much as we loved punk rock, our noise was coming from a slightly different place.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!

Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.