Calvin had long been uneasy in his own person and so lived to put everyone else at ease.

We are all worthy of one another.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.

Until I can read a story physically, with the eyes, it doesn't seem to exist for me.

A woman, no matter the age, is always learning, always becoming. But a man . . . stops learning at fourteen or so.

(Her husband's departure ...) had picked Mildred up by the hair and dropped her down at the doorstep of insanity.From "Butterfly on F street

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like that.

Strong people are those who have been broken so many times, lost many people in life but still have love to give and strength to trust again.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

People must be free to work, to save, to own their own home, to take risks, to invest in each other and, in essence, to control their own lives.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

I love female heroes too and would love to bring many more to the big screen in the future.

You just never know what's around the next corner in life or business or anything.

See that's what people don't get about food. It's never the food, it's the love that goes into making it. That's what's important.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.