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

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 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.

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

A failure is not one who has attempted and failed but one who has failed to attempt for fear of failing.

There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.

When your knowlege increases over time, yearn to learn to dance in your mind.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

You're better off not preparing, because what you prepare will always be wrong.

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of life.

If my music is political in a way, and it might be, it's in the way of generating a sensitivity in people, a deeper awareness of the world around them. That's my goal, at least.

The most successful exploiter is the one who makes others feel that he or she has their best interests at heart.

To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson in life for our guys. It shows anything is possible.