It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.

Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.

It makes sense that the placenta almost looks like a tree with many branches - a tree of life.

What's the difference between tough love and acting like a jerk?

“If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money.”

I wanted to give birth as opposed to being delivered!

For me, being memorable is more important than winning.

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

Positive thinking is a good attitude to have. But positive thinking without any skills is a load of crap.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

I really like Rafer Alston. We get along great. We have a lot of fun times together that I can’t share with you guys.

Paraguay has had a U.S. supermarket boss as its ambassador for a while. He did the job well. He was there because he wanted to be there. Rather than the British diplomat who didn't want to be there.

Alone with Giddon again, Bitterblue considered him, rather liking the mud streaks on his face. He looked like a handsome sunken rowboat.

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

I didn't know I was looking for anything until I saw you.