It's all in the reflexes.

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

Sunrise: day's great progenitor.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from.

The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

I will protect you until you are grown and then I will let you fly free, but loving you, that is for always.

Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

I always loved music, but it's not something I thought I was gonna approach on a professional level.