. . .There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments . . .

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

I'm not at all contemporary, not even modern, and the fact that I would be so quaintly attracted to that wrestling rule makes me, I suppose, seem all the more old-fashioned. I believe in rules of behavior, and I'm quite interested in stories about the consequences of breaking those rules.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

I certainly think Obama is the most hopeful president I've seen in the country since John Kennedy.

My life is a reading list.