What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

I don't believe there is one person on this road that is not opposed to it going in. We are just still banding together out here, and we are going to try to get as many [opponents] at the meeting as we can.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the future and my attachment to it. I can't imagine what kind of writer I'd be if I didn't have my kids.

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.