I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh.

Beware of advice—even this.

As a Humanist, I love science. I hate superstition, which could never have given us A-bombs.

Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.

There is an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness inside each one of us.

I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.

Yes, I know and then in the same time period within those nine years I lost 150 pounds.

People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.

All comes out even at the end of the day.