Life was still sprouting in him—over the sharp rocks and right on the nose of a cliff, he was yet far from death.

I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

There are aspects of being the first woman in space that I'm not going to enjoy.

She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

When you have a TV show or when you are running a magazine, you have to remember that your audience isn't rich. They're not made of money.

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest.

In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am.