There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.