I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Let us be of good cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

I am just like everybody else...because there is nobody like me in the whole world.

In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.

It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.

I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.

I'd been a thriller reader all my life.

I knew I was going to be composing. It all makes sense in retrospect. But you don't know while you're in the process of improvising your life.