I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

When knowledge is put into practice, then through your experience of it, it becomes your insight.

...the facts of economic life cannot be comprehensively described in terms of statistics.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin

There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.

If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.

Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people.

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

My recent retirement from full-time teaching to the status of research professor at University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB) encouraged me to come out, so to speak.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.