I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write, and there are very few of them.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.

When men do the dishes, it's called helping. When women do the dishes, it is called life.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make my marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between 1946 and 1965 and if you think you're tired of hearing about us, you should try being one of us.