My mom was paranoid about my safety.

Oh, that sound? I'm in the hot tub, reading a novel.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist.

I suspected that there were things he knew that I had been waiting all my life to learn.

In many ways, being honest about 'Huckleberry Finn' goes right to the heart of whether we can be honest about our heritage and our identity as Americans.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

Take naps. Often new ideas come together when you are half asleep, but you have to train yourself to remember them.

Candy is my fuel. Ice cream, too.

But what truly horsey girls discover in the end is that boyfriends, husbands, children, and careers are the substitute-for horses

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.

The key to happiness is under the doorstep rug.

When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence.

Time is flying never to return.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

I did Noise Music because I genuinely liked noise... But a lot of people didn't. At my concerts, people smashed beer glasses in my face.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.