Good fiction challenges us as much as it entertains and these days, we could do with both of these things.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

The greatest rivers always find their way to the ocean. Like a ship reaching out to its motherland.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.

The primary factor is proportions.

If you let social activities take precedence over your academic activities, then you will soon lose your basketball activities.

The masses do not like those who surpass them in any regard. The average man envies and hates those who are different.

Money is only interesting for what it lets you do and create.

I tell ya, it's tough to save a buck. Right now I'm supporting two fighters. My wife and her mother.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy proposals.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.