The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day; I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.

I want to be a rebellious McDonald's owner. Cheeseburgers... NOPE... we got spaghetti!

Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.

As your US Senator, Im not in the business of creating jobs.

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.