Women’s fiction” doesn’t sound like anything but a slur to my ears.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time!

People who truly follow the Way would do well to conceal the fact that they are Buddhists.

We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable.

The cost of food in the kingdom is hunger for the Bread of Life.

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family.

On the onside, first there is God, then Sourav Ganguly.

When we ask for heaven, we are asking for stasis. A form of comfort that will last for eternity. Yes, that is what we all want, the way we understand happiness.

Life is given to each human being For a very special purpose. This secret each human being Must discover for himself.