I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

You're not going to get any true confessions out of me," she said. "I'm a Leo, and our thing is changing the subject.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

Find a right and a beautiful idea

The world is a cruel place, Petrosinella, and it wounds the weak.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

You need two things to remain very, very present. You need to continue to write well and engage yourself in the issues of the day. And you have to continue to make good, relevant records.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Once you leave, you're no longer of that country, but you are never actually of the country that you go to, and if you go back, you're not anywhere. You never belong to anything.

The only thing I never have unless I'm pregnant is heartburn.

I don't think the women in the TV series are really like that. It's certainly not my personal experience of New York women.

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.