There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back ….

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk..

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either..

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will..

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness..

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing ….

The spoken word converts individual knowledge into mutual knowledge, and there is no way back once you've gone over that cliff. Saying nothing was mo….

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you..

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less..

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often ….

But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see..

The happening and telling are very different things. This doesn’t mean that the story isn’t true, only that I honestly don’t know anymore if I really….

Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families..

Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being mar….

I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through..

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail..

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter..

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come..

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book..

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone.