I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

They don't understand it. They're not old enough to know the first instinct of irritation should be avoided in order to keep an open mind.

If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy." ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

Sure, he had a wife and fifty-four kids, but he looked like a college freshman. A yummy college freshman majoring in Oh-my-god-I-gotta-get-me-some-of-that.

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

No amount of activity in the King's service will make up for neglect of the King Himself.