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

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you've lived enough and you've got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I'm okay.

I think when people keep saying to you, "You're good at this," you just keep doing it.

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.