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

Barack Obama is the kind of guy who likes to do things by inches, he's the kind of guy who likes to build consensus and compromise.

I do tend to be almost kind of Pollyanna-ish person.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.