...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.

Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

It’s not that I can’t remember. It’s that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

The first and most important component in nation building is LAW. Law is the source of national Cohesion.

Do not marry the enemy of your excitement.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

I frankly encountered more anti-Semitism in the northeast than I did in Oklahoma, but not much either place. Anti-Semitism is not part of my life.

When I was 13, I wasn't the coolest kid in my class, and that inner dork is a wonderful thing to have.