Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

I look at the great poets of the Soviet Union, like Anna Akhmatova, who endured far worse then anything we've seen or hopefully that we will ever see. If they could keep writing and keep a voice alive, keep people hopeful through their poetry, then I would be ashamed to stop and to give in. It would be really self-indulgent, unacceptable, and inexcusable to walk away from it.