I have never thought I could take it, not even for the children. It is all I have wanted to do, to stand between them and and pain. But I come from a long line of women who put themselves first.

Everyone is so different. I sometimes wish I wrote in a different way. You know, that feeling of: So-and-so writes slowly, if only I wrote slowly.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.

To me, the mind seems to be spread out in the whole body - the senses are part of the brain. I guess they're not where the thinking is done.

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.