You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

We all know that great leaders can create great successes...success for the Chicago public education fund is to bring great leaders into Chicago's public schools.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

Someone said to me, "Hey, what's it like kissing Marilyn Monroe?" I said, "It's like kissing Hitler. What are you doing asking me such a stupid question?"