The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Love happens sublimely, serenely and accidentally! It will happen when you least expect it to!

Tokyo is a very safe city. At night it becomes quiet the way New York never does.

Most of us humans have no idea how stressful any change is for animals.

I could always make people laugh.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any.

My dog of 17 years just died. Oh you're kidding?... Noooo... as funny as that is, I'm not

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

Texas people are really strong in their roots. I started writing and playing guitar at 17. I've always loved music, and my dad is a singer-songwriter.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.