Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

What goes on inside isn't ever the same as what goes on outside.

Enjoy small moments as they come. At the end, That's what makes life worthwhile...

Balance is the secret of reaching the far places!

The world is like a board with holes in it and the square men have got into the round holes and the round into the square.

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

There is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in.

In 1917 there was not a single Bolshevik who considered possible the realization of a socialist society in a single country, and least of all in Russia.

I believe we need affordable child care. I believe we need flexibility. I believe we need institutional reform and public policy reform.

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.