I cannot write to anyone outside myself--if I tried, it would be a horrible story, flat and lifeless. I write to myself. That's the only person I'm trying to please.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing.

By passing your GCSEs you prove that you’re not an idiot… But by passing your A levels you prove that you’re smart

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

As a model, you really get to work everywhere in the world. You get a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

Guess you lose some & win some, long as the outcome is income.

It's scary how easy promises were broken.

Gary Hart is going to be all over the political spectrum fuzzing it up just like Jack Kennedy.

I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

Black women are the touchstone by which all that is human can be measured.