you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

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.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am-Luna Lovegood

Do you think it's really the Boogeyman that killed Brent? You think it's back?""I sincerely hope not.""When you say things like that, I start to cry a little on the inside.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

Each of us has capacities. The real trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel.

It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

Israel uses weapons to safeguard civilians. Hamas uses civilians to safeguard weapons.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.