I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.

I know my own weaknesses as a human being, and as a musician, as a singer and as a woman.

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens.

All of my books now come from readers' ideas.

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

I am the world's laziest shopper, but very rarely have I had to take anything back.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Exercise is an absolute must. Period. That doesn't mean I'm a gym junkie - it just means that I have to get a few days doing something physical a week, even just for my mental sanity.

I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.