For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.

Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Just because something doesn't last forever, it doesn't mean it wasn't meaningful while it did last. It doesn't mean it wasn't important.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder--no matter how old you became and how much you'd seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.

A lot of people notice when you succeed they don’t see what it takes to get there.

Everybody has their favorite sad songs. That's part of what I love so much about country music. Country music is never afraid to go with a sad song.

One Child's courage to survive.

For in their hearts doth Nature stir them so Then people long on pilgrimage to go And palmers to be seeking foreign strands To distant shrines renowned in sundry lands.

I will follow my father's footsteps by doing what is right, and God will take care of the rest. My father is my role model. My living role model is Cory Aquino.

She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The one thing that's hurt in my career is people saying I don't want to come out of Manchester to fight people.