I was a roving guard on the Lowell Hebrew Community Center's girls' basketball team all through high school. My specialty was stealing the ball, but my only shot was a lay-up.

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I watch golf on television, although I don't golf - except for visits to the driving range in spurts.

I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.

Time is that by which at every moment all things become as nothing in our hands, and thereby lose all their true value.

Magical morning lights, dreamy sky, Smiling flowers letting us know summer is opening her eyes

God holds us in the untamed moments too.

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.

We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!

If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

When you cannot measure, your knowledge is meager and unsatisfactory.

I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent.

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.