I'm sorry you aren't as brave as you thought you were. But don't punish me because of it.

Marriages are like pianos. They go in and out of tune.

Just that maybe … maybe you don’t want to change the story, because you don’t know what a different ending holds.

All is as it should be.

A student will find that he is more affected by one book which he has truly mastered than by 20 books which he has merely skimmed.

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.