One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

If our foundation is on God, then our burden becomes His and we sail through smoothly.

Even when I was caught in the web, I didn't give up hope. And as you see, I was right.

Fitness needs to be perceived as fun and games or we subconsciously avoid it.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

What sounds good on the radio is really loud kick drums and loud snare drums, when everything's bombastic and in your face. It's the equivalent of a houseguest who screams all the time.

Nuclear war would mean abolition of most comforts, and disruption of normal routines, for children and adults alike.