Follow your heart, and you perish.

When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.

The dead don't bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don't rest uneasy. Only the living.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.

Love is the soul of a divine being.

Hurt. Enough to want to make someone else hurt too.

Everyone have two faces, but mine are twins.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

The drama is the looking-glass in which we see the hideousness of vice and the beauties of virtue.

I'm a Leo. Leos don't believe in this astrology stuff.

Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.