For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.

Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.

Friendship is a Spackle in itself. You'll forgive your friends a lot, and if you're a woman, you'll forgive your straight male friends even more. They represent the possibility of mutual toleration between the sexes, a keyhole into the mind of the Other, and the promise of one day meeting someone just like them except that you want to sleep with them.

When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.

A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.