I love that thing on Amazon that you can go on and order a book, and you click on it and it says, 'You might also like,' or 'Other people who bought ….

Your word is your bond, you do what you say you're going to do..

I am a documentarian of what I do..

A text is evolutionary by its very nature..

I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the pl….

I'm going to kill them all.

Every book presents its own specific challenges, or should, and you're right that this one has a preoccupation with uncertainty. In this, Valiant Gen….

Proclaim not all though knowest, or all though owest..

I am not read well, but when I do read, I read well..

When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might….

What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading..

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives..

No one can get to the Right of me..

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book..

My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander..

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves..

It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work..

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to ta….

Until the early 90s, when I was working on a project about the idea of free will in American philosophy. I knew that Lincoln had had something to say….

There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother..

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized..