“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.”

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.”

“We carry secrets under our skin like shrapnel. Our surface wounds heal, but the damage festers underneath while we worry what tiny pieces will work their way to the surface for the world to see.”

“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. ”

“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.”

“For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others.”