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"Things are not quite what they seem always. Don't start me on class, otherwise you'll get a four-hour lecture."

"Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out."

"I like leaping around on stage as long as it's done with class. None of this jumping up in the air and doing the splits."

"I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier."

"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."

"The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class."

"To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation."
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"I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again."

"I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward."

"Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!"

"Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age."

"She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages."

"My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages."

"I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage."
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