You do not respond to a mosquito bite with a hammer.

Through college she had been a feminist—basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

He wanted nothing to do with her. He wanted everything to do with her.

Don't waste water even if you were at a running stream

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

Great men don't nessarily make good husbands.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.