Your whole life is ahead of you. Don't you ever forget that.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!

Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

Courage provides you with two qualities

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

Here's what I knew about doing a play: I knew it would make me a better actor.

I don't think San Francisco needs defending. I never meet anyone who doesn't love the place, Americans or others.

Lady," she whimpered softly, wondering if she would meet her wolf again when she was dead.

Do not wait for miracles to happen. The greatest miracle in life is life itself.

The Way begets one; one begets two; two begets three; three begets the myriad creatures.

For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.