Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.

Wow, so much of the way I've transacted my life... so much of the results that I'm happy about are because of what Daddy did.

I know a lot and have written a lot and have thought a lot about motherhood.

The life of a good dog is like the life of a good person, only shorter and more compressed.

I sometimes think that courage is the thing that you need more than any other thing. It's fear that cripples us. It's fear that accounts for racism, it's fear that accounts for sexism, for xenophobia.

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.