I’d still be nice to you if you were ugly.” “Okay.” A wicked grin slipped over his full lips. He bent his head down and whispered, “I just wouldn’t offer you any cookies.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

All that alcohol does for them is to liberate the sense of sin, which reason suppresses in saner moments.

First rule about vampires, don't believe anything you read.

If people want to believe in this god, or that god, that's fine by me, believe away.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

It's true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.

I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control.

I had so many unsold murder pictures lying around my room...I felt as if I were renting out a wing of the City Morgue.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.