Friends are a weird thing. It seems like they know all about you, but then they don’t understand you at all.

If you say I hide things because I'm shy, that can't be right. I've finally realized it's for a different reason-- that I don't want to see the darkness that lies in my heart

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

It is difficult for me to commit to an manuscript. Once, I get finished writing it. I get this feeling of adrenaline, and satisfaction. This is when the amusement begins, for the writer's side of me.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

If I declare it to be so, then this is a portrait.

Przybilla can't guard me when I'm 27, 37 or 47.

For a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.