...motherhood should be like driving a car -- you should have to pass a test before you can do it legally.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Here's a thought to help ease the stress: "Good enough is the new perfect.

The whole crew sat on the deck, without a storm or a monster attack to worry about for the first time in days, and ate ice cream. Well, except for Frank, who was lactose intolerant. He got an apple.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

I was just surprised when my wife told me we were having a baby. I was like, Wow, that's awesome. You're going to make a great single mom.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Pickpockets either work alone or in pairs, or what is called a mob.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.