You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Light in your soul kindles the light in your world.

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do drugs. I shop, okay?

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I never feel empty. I travel a lot and I think about other films.

Through the Rosary the faithful receive abundant grace, as though from the very hands of the Mother of the Redeemer.

Being a human being is lost. For 120 shows, the one that goes bad is the one that people will talk about.

I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.