Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

I know it's a cliche, but trust me on this. I once dated a Canadian. Canada = boring.

I'm a Libra. If someone compliments me, I'll say something nice to them. I like to give out compliments.

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

It's like having children. You give birth, but then they take on a life of their own. That's what actors do for characters. It's pretty amazing.

As the writer, I may choose to ignore the emotional heart of the matter, and focus on details, and trust that the heart of the matter will be conveyed nevertheless.

Gratitude is a flower that blooms in noble souls.

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.