Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

I hope suffering don't exist.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It's up to you, not fate.

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

Everything you want is hidden in faith.

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

To see another as God intended, we must come from a place of loving inside ourselves, as God intended.

War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

I'm a mom first, a singer second.

I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

Books don't harm kids; they arm them.

Finally, strategy must have continuity. It can't be constantly reinvented.

Most of those men don’t want to sleep with you,” he said in blunt rebuttal. “I reserve the right to introduce my fist to the faces of the ones who do.