"I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be."

"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."

"Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave."

"And we have a little herb garden, which survived the winter thanks to global warming. It makes me feel like a cool, old Italian housewife, that I kept my rosemary alive outside all winter."

"Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature."

"That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story."

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."

"If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was."