In a democratic society, the only treason is silence.

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

Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.

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