My mother was an incredibly loving mother.

Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. We human beings are best understood one at a time.

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

We are awash in the revealed world.

I think the last couple of years of life for many, many people are the same as they were 50, 60, 70 years ago. They could be really tough because of infirmity.

... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.