It’s not easy balancing a career, a family and a healthy outlook on life, which is why I don’t.

I've seen enough family photos in enough homes to know that the term 'suitable for framing' should have a stricter definition.

Sure, I'd like a child of my own. I'd also like a laser pistol, that doesn't mean someone should give me one.

Whatever I haven’t accomplished biologically obviously wasn't all that imperative.

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.

There are many ways to roll with the punches. Still, it’s probably best to avoid people who punch you.

Lately, I've become sort of a fatalist. Well, that was bound to happen.

My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.

Most people thought he was insane when he looked up into the sky with a simple handmade telescope and cried out that the Earth revolves around the Sun, because this was four years ago.

Have you ever suddenly realized it's someone else's mood swing and you're just along for the ride?

I had to break up with Medusa. I just got sick of buying mice for her hair. I should have ended it sooner, but you try looking into those eyes.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

The same good folk who would burn me for a psychal now paid me to use my cursed gramarye to guard their sheep.

One of the things I love about labeling myself as an author is that I can read books and call it "researching writing styles."--Mike Mankoff

Nothing could have been more imprudent or more natural than this reply. It reflected the ecstasy inspired by great crises.

Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.

On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

I don't go to fast food restaurants anymore. That's out.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?