"Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space."

"One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend."

"The first thing I think about when I wake up most mornings is the fact that I'm tired. I have been tired for decades. I am tired in the morning and I am tired while becalmed in the slough of the afternoon, and I am tired in the evening, except right when I try to go to sleep."

"Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it."

"Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands."

"Experience is the stern teacher that gives the examination before the lesson. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon."

"I go to school the youth to learn the future."

"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."