People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.

Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.

Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.

You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.

It is possible, he thought, to be completely happy in marriage--though you must be willing to hold on when your ship was lost at sea and there was no guarantee of rescue.

Mental clarity ain't for the faint of heart.

My life is too often driven by the fear of the next moment verses focusing on the privilege that I have the next moment.

People don't like getting older, but they do like changing

You die in the middle of your life.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Faces ...I ...don't ...know ...the real ...me

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.

Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.