What year is it in your imagination?

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid

I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing.

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.