I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

When you get divorced and remarried, nobody gets discarded. Everybody is still there. Even if their storyline is not directly yours.

When well told, a story captured the subtle movement of change. If a novel was a map of a country, a story was the bright silver pin that marked the crossroads.