If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Most good relationships are built on mutual trust and respect.

Otherwise, my whole career has just been flinging myself at whatever is most overdue first and letting everything else stack up.

Success ... seems to be connected with action.

This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

This leaf here took forever to become that perfect leaf. We're that. We're work in progress. That's actually being alive.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

If your hair is relaxed, white people are relaxed. If your hair is nappy, they're not happy.