As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

God’s beautiful woman spares no effort to provide the best she can for her beloved family.

Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.

No great achiever - even those who made it seem easy - ever succeeded without hard work.

Gentle with the drugs, heavy with the love

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

All the sands of the world even when they unite together cannot create the hardness of a single rock!

Fake is as old as the Eden tree.

Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours

Steve Buscemi is hilarious. He's really, really good with improv.