But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

a bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses