There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

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

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

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.