Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

Even the bad books I write are satisfying. I'm my least critical reader.

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

Preach in hatred and you will only find love.

Manipulating the media is akin to poisoning a nation’s water supply – it affects all of our lives in unimaginable ways.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

The US government should not be in the business of discrimination.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

Winning an argument with your wife is like winning the war with Iraq. Once you win, you're in even more trouble.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

There is an important erotic element in A Thousand and One Nights, which is one of the keys to understanding the Orient.

I'm attracted to the underrated characters.