It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes place in the stands.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

I have never squandered an opportunity to read.

Never give in to peer pressure, especially if the peer is not attractive.

Did you once own ruby slippers, and did a house fall on your head? You're a daft little munchkin.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days.

Since I was 20 years old, I've been a kind of corporation. I'd wake up in the morning and my job was to be 'Bonnie Raitt' in capital letters.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.