I don't have a favorite. I need different genres at different times.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

Someone who was just nice didn't remain on your mind an hour after they'd left.

Husbands don't really count ... in the miracle of birth.

Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House, make no mistake about it.

Father doesn't think very sudden, but he thinks awful strong.

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahimsâ, non-injury.

The dirty energy crowd can be offset only by the power of the rising clean energy sector and the American people, aroused across party lines.

I love Lana Del Rey! It's weird because I read something that said, "Oh, Willis Earl Beal and Lana Del Rey are the antithesis of each other." When in fact, she was what I wanted to sound like.