Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.

Tell him, we are not devils but we have friends who are.

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism

The fact was that where Will is concerned, she was developing a new kind of sense, as if he were simply more in focus than anyone she'd known before. Everything about him was clear and close and immediate.