When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.
We'll continue to speak out in a respectful way; never challenging somebody's love for America when you criticize their strategies or their point of view. For those who say that, well, all they're trying to say is, "We're not patriotic," simply don't listen to our words very carefully, do they?
I am a patriot and I want to see this country [the USA] soar again.
Obviously a garden is not the wilderness but an assembly of shapes, most of them living, that owes some share of its composition, it’s appearance, to human design and effort, human conventions and convenience, and the human pursuit of that elusive, indefinable harmony that we call beauty. It has a life of its own, an intricate, willful, secret life, as any gardener knows. It is only the humans in it who think of it as a garden. But a garden is a relationship, which is one of the countless reasons why it is never finished.