she wondered how she could have spent all that money and have nothing but clothes and accessories and a long list of men she never wanted to see again to show for it

The question to ask is what will satisfy you? What will bring you peace? And perhaps the answer to those is in asking yourself when you were last happy.

Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.

Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.

Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.

I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.

Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...

We don't just come from the womb bearing our talents. They grow from all the things we learn.

The key is to embrace disruption and change early. Don't react to it decades later. You can't fight innovation.

Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

Now, I find that very difficult to reconcile with notions about a merciful God.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

...smile first, then speak.

I've always enjoyed playing live onstage.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

I make jokes about the fact that as a neuro-surgeon I shouldn't be required at a motor race because the drivers don't have any brains.... otherwise they wouldn't race.

The essence of synergy is to value differences-to respect them, to build on strengths, to compensate for weaknesses