Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't

I knew that I was talented. I was positive about that. I wasn’t sure exactly what I was talented at, but I was ambitious enough to wait it out and see what turned up.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

love is a hawk with velvet claws love is a rock with heart and veins love is a lion with satin jaws love is a storm with silken reins

I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

To God each one of us is His favorite. God's love comes to all, but it comes to all as each, not to all as some anonymous aggregate.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

"Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device, not a question.

Don't quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can't see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It's the one that makes the sweetest sound.

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.