There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

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.

A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

Assad has to be removed, and then you have to actually put someone in that is a qualified leader that can start to build some trust in that area.

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

I'm a black man that is proud to be black, and I want to help the black community, but I love all mankind.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

They say ya additude determines ya laditude.

Create an atmosphere for the Spirit. The Spirit must be present.

Posterity will know as little of me as I know of posterity.