An author who does not support his or her characters does not deserve the support of readers. EVER!

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

People are going to think I'm crazy.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

The average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else.

How do you keep ninety people together with one stick? I've got two sticks and I can't keep five people together.

A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing.

Young people like to feel self-righteous, like they're on the right side of things.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.