It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

I have always felt that the action most worth watching is not at the center of things but where edges meet. I like shorelines, weather fronts, international borders. There are interesting frictions and incongruities in these places, and often, if you stand at the point of tangency, you can see both sides better than if you were in the middle of either one.

when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

One of the convenient things about literature is that, despite copyrights [...] a book belongs to the reader as well as to the writer.

A philosophy professor at my college, whose baby became enamored of the portrait of David Hume on a Penguin paperback, had the cover laminated in plastic so her daughter could cut her teeth on the great thinker.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.