I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.

Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.

When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.