The best thing about Sassy Seats is that grandmothers cannot figure out how they work and are in constant fear of the child's falling. This often makes them forget to comment on other aspects of the child's development, like why he is not yet talking or is still wearing diapers. Some grandmothers will spend an entire meal peering beneath the table and saying, "Is that thing steady?" rather than, "Have you had a doctor look at that left hand?

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

That's really what I want in a leader; I want somebody who's really, really smart.

Your hair isn't quite right and maybe you're a size bigger than you should be and on and on and on. I think there comes a moment when you've matured to the point where you suddenly think, nonsense. I am fine just the way I am.

Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.

When I'm falling, my girlfriends are my soft landing.

I'm a Catholic of the New Testament, I'm not a Catholic of the hierarchy.