We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.

It is easy to make friends.But, it is tough to honor that friendship with'em.If you find those people, hold on to them.If you don't, move on.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our "beauty" so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Cleaning the wound is often more painfulthan the cut itself.

I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.

Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of strength.

It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70.

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Your poverty today is because of who you are. Want wealth? Let go of your anchors and inhibitions and change yourself.