Yes, there's one thing I do want. I want to be aware of the minutes and the seconds, and to make each one count.

Never judge anyone by another's opinions. We all have different sides that we show to different people.

When you're climbing Mount Everest, nothing is easy. You just take one step at a time, never look back and always keep your eyes glued to the top.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

Everyone has an identity. One of their own, and one for show.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Acting is glamour but writing is hard work, so I'm going to be an actress.

The second draft is on yellow paper, that's when I work on characterizations. The third is pink, I work on story motivations. Then blue, that's where I cut, cut, cut.

I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!

I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.

Everyone knew as much as they needed to know to be happy.

There is far more happiness in a life that is your own than a life in which you are handed the lines to say and shown the gestures to make. Do not ever be ambitious.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?

It is only mercenaries who expect to be paid by the day.

I'm a lurker and a creep. Women don't like me because I sleep standing up, like a horse.

The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

One is very weak when one is in love.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

All the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.