I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

I am a working woman with a secret life: I keep house.

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves.

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

Anyone who is gossiping is just insecure about that person they're gossiping about.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears. My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.