I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

I don't think that most songwriters can ever anticipate quite what their songs are going to mean to people.

I'm not looking to exclude people, I'm looking to include them.