Insecurity, however, is a luxury on which I never economize.

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

And that may be [Helen Gurley] Brown’s most enlightened lesson: that sexual autonomy and fulfillment are inseparable from the autonomy and fulfillment that a woman gets from her career.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

The border between editing and ghostwriting is, at its extremes, a bit porous. An editor really improves and sometimes restructures a manuscript and suggests changes.

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity."

The measure of a society is not only what it does but the quality of its aspirations.

Character- building education is what the world needs – education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal!

Your twenties are the time to both accept and fight your way into the person you're destined to become.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices.

Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it.

We passed over in a sweep of sorrow that would persist into our small forever. We just keep going.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write.