The fact is that the same sequence of days can arrange themselves into a number of different stories.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

Never see yourself as being superior to others

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I was forgiven by forgiving many things Including my long-ago childhood I was healed, but I intended [ to ] heal I've just noticed, the way I was saved by love Though I tried to keep love away.

Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find.

Stop labeling people just because they're not like you.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions man is powerless.

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

I've made my own comments as to our vales as well in a speech I gave to the State Department.