A new book is just like any new product, like a detergent. You have to acquaint people with it. They have to know it's there. You only get to be number one when the public knows about you.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

I have emotions, ” I whisper. I am nothing but a black hole of emotions.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

O wild, dark flower of woman, Deep rose of my desire, An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change... [Truth's] mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

I am an Indian and a painter, that's all.

You know, modern liberals are just, I think frankly, totally off the deep end... their only answer is to yell racism and hide.

Humility is the virtue that requires the greatest amount of effort.