I know white clothing is supposed to enhance that summer glow, but writers don't tan.

Nah... I mean, I'm already pregnant, so what other kind of shenanigans could I get into?

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Couture gowns are like gremlins; you can't expose them to bright light or get them wet.

Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

He is the cheese to my macaroni.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

I've been told that I'm incompetent, socially retarded, maladjusted. I still know that I couldn't function in reality. Los Angeles is a good place for me.

It doesn't matter if they're in front of the camera or behind the camera. I know women who are producers who are surviving on nothing but juice and almonds.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

She clung to the memories of her youth as if they were the only way she could save a piece of her soul from whatever it was she was about to face.

It was during this terrible night that the three wounded died, and the jeeps froze solid.

So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.

Whatever you love, that will be an influence. It just will. So in effect the young writer's job is: go out and find some stuff to love.

He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late

In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur...us to achieve great things.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you don't matter, or like you don't have a place in our American story - because you do.

Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good.