I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.

I have no desire to be dominated. Honestly I don't. And yet I find myself becoming angry when I'm not.

You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I'll have what she's having

Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.