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

And a great misunderstanding is that children think their parents are grown-up, and parents feel obliged to act as if they were.

We almost manage to forget that things happen that we don't anticipate.

The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.

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.

A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement.

I don't know what I would do in the world without [female friends] for advice, for comfort, for simply knowing that there is someone out there who knows me as I am, and loves me despite and because of it.