My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.

Women are the glue that holds our day-to-day world together.

Those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers.

Keeping kids safe is sometimes a delusion. The world is a perilous place. Sometimes the kitchen is a perilous place.

In life, the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.