I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.

Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didnt get you very far, because there werent too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldnt be both.

You know they're just looking for wrinkles and cellulite.

I was a little fat pudgy kid with big thick glasses, and I was quiet and never said a word, you know -- teachers loved me, straight-A student.

Whose little boy are you?

You know what? From now on, I think I’m going to call you Mister Christmas.

To have great poets there must be great audiences too.

The laws of physics and chemistry must be the same in a crucible as in the larger laboratory of Nature.

Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it.