I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

What's great about good writing is that it feels like life, so it's not hard to relate to her circumstances.

I'm a middle child, and I'm pretty diplomatic: the peace-maker.

I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.

Parents always stay older than you, but sibling sort of become adults together, and that complicates that relationship, I think.

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read.

Unfortunately, you are far more likely to be harmed or die prematurely as a direct result of modern society than you are from any form of terrorism.

People don't follow ordinary people

The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.

Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.

I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

Childhood reading is so important.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

Taqwaa is not by praying all night and fasting all day but rather it is abiding by the commands of Allah and staying away from His prohibitions.