[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

The fact is I'm choosy, but mainly about a man's character. He has to be interesting, funny and clever. I don't even mind if he's not very good-looking.

Early on in my career I had the kind of anxious where you couldn't sleep at night. That anxiousness is like a virus we all have in us. Some you can deal with but some will wipe you out.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind

If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

Laws are the DNA of government. They must evolve with time.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

Buy groceries and feed yourself, even on the road