Sometimes we don't see out of our peripheral vision what's coming right around the corner.

You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.

Decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

I hope readers will do what I do when I read a novel I like: talk in ways that will illuminate their own lives.

The gender gap looks at this point like it's going to favor the president, particularly among white suburban women. I certainly think it's going to be an issue. But I think the single most important thing in this election will be turnout.