Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

You think you're the foreigner here, and I'm the American, and I just look the other way while the President or somebody sends down this and that . . . to torture people with. But nobody asked my permission, okay? Sometimes I feel like I'm a foreigner, too.

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.