I love having a president who I think is smarter than I am.

Real friends offer both hard truths and soft landings and realize that it's sometimes more important to be nice than to be honest.

My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

My sister is a public school teacher. She makes far far less money than I do, and gets almost no public attention for her work. Yet I believe what she does is infinitely more important and more difficult than what I do.