"My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father."

"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything."

"The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way."

"It was so much fun to have the freedom to wander America, with no assignments. For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself."

"Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure."

"But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role."

"Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all."

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."