I honestly believe that everything I know about the writing of non-fiction (or writing) could be engraved on the head of a pin with a garden hoe.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.

A citizen of an advanced industrialized nation consumes in six months the energy and raw materials that have to last the citizen of a developing country his entire lifetime.

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.

What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?

Even though I am fantastic looking, I am still quite intelligent.