My husband knows me better than anyone.

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder and awe at this phenomenal world around us.

Leave every place you go, everything you touch, a little better for your having been there.

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in.

These days, people like me who are in the arts are perceived as celebrity writers. That really makes me angry because I expend a great deal of effort and spend an enormous amount of time on my books. And I've been writing now for 35 years.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.