Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.

All politicians are not the same. I've never felt that way. What is the same is that voters get very excited about new faces, like Clinton and Blair - and they have unrealistic expectations that the world will change overnight. A cynical old hand like myself knows that it won't.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Literature is analysis after the event.