I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.

When someone gets a success, and we, too, have done good work and sometimes even better work than the person who has just triumphed, we wonder: Why did success pass me by?

Dreams are those that don't let you sleep at night.

We are often unaware of how much we love the people around us. This is true for everyone. We may think that we love certain people, but we don't know how profoundly we love them.

I thought it was quite wonderful coming to America. I think immigration is a very difficult thing, but America is a very wonderful place.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Certainly the details of our life are unique. Spending time thinking of how I am different from someone else, however, does not tend to be very productive.

Exposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

I think women love glamour. I mean, not all women, but I think this is something that women share.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

We could improve worldwide mental health if we acknowledged that parents can make you crazy.

Leaving people to jumped conclusions is sometimes simpler than explaining a complicated truth

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Im obsessed with leather jackets!

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

I have a lot of fun playing a model on television, and I love being an actress. I don't think I could ever handle that world.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.