The one certain way for a woman to hold a man is to leave him for religion.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally and completely under my control.

The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?

I don’t think anyone knew I could act until I put on a bathing suit.

All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.

It takes a tremendous amount of passion to do innovative things every day.

The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

You've got to make choices that make sense for you because there's always going to be somebody who'll think you should do something differently.

I spent half my life without the internet, it was pretty much the same thing just a whole lot slower and a whole lot more intense!