It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

I did not begin with craft, I began with strong feelings and worked toward craft.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

Patience is important for a man, vital for a leader

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

A good writer is basically a story-teller not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

The predictable thing about 'The Good Wife' is how unpredictable 'The Good Wife' is.

I was brought up Methodist, christened as a little baby and went to church every Sunday.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.