You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.

Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.

Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.

You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be.

I enjoy being surprised.

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.

I went out with people, but never anything too serious. It wasn't that easy. Now it's something I'm really looking forward to.

Liberalism is [ CNN infobabes] religion; it's all a matter of faith. Nobody attacking it is gonna be listened to.

Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to each other.