I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Here comes a pair of very strange beast, which in all tongues are called "fools".

For me it's always been about the stories, not what medium. The medium is secondary to the stories.

It's hard to say what role race really played in my case.

As a woman who has some sort of power, you have to have a man that can take that. It's hard to find those men.

Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works.

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means.

I used food to make myself feel better, but I felt worse when I ate.

There's no higher honor, in my estimation, than being asked to serve in the White House.

Imagination is a great thing in long dull hours, but it's a real curse in a dark alley.