I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

It is true that I do not speak as well as I can think. But that is true of most people, as nearly as I can tell.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Before that I was a scientist. I did research in population biology. And that's what I always go back to, it helps me to remember that people are not the end of the world, although we may be when it comes to it. We're just one species among millions in this world.

I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.