A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path are always idiosyncratic. One book leads to another and another the way one thought leads to another and another. My type of reader is the sort who burrows through the stacks in the bookstore or the library (or the Web site — stacks are stacks), yielding to impulse and instinct.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.