Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

I promise you, I will never enter a bicycle race.

No doubt, there are times when I'm like "We have all gotten really used to saying whatever the f - k we want to say," and it's something that I really take seriously, whatever that may be.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

A hatt is not made for one shower.

My husband used to take care of the business part of this, and after he died I found I wasn't really any good at it. I hate remembering who owes me what and bugging them if they haven't paid me.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

That which offers no resistance, overcomes the hardest substances.

I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.