Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

There are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.

The brave view is that talking it out helps work it out. Maybe the realistic view is that talking it out inflames the issues further. But that is America, especially these days.

Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.