I feel my family's needs are a priority. I'm not comfortable with the idea of serving the many and ignoring my family.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

My brain is such a traitorous beast.

It's mind-boggling when you think about how important it is to do what you feel is right. You don't know what you'll be missing when you make a bad choice.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling.

There are no men like me. There's only me

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

No other profession is subject to the public contempt and derision that sometimes befalls lawyers. the bitter fruit of public incomprehension of the law itself and its dynamics.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

I thought love was more or less a giving thing. Seems the more I gave, the less I got.