I love my career. It is a career. A difficult one that takes many hours and total dedication to my craft. It is also what I was born to do--tell stories and entertain.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.

She was an ocean, confined in a coffee mug. And she had the galaxies, confined in her pretty eyes.

Gratitude is who you are, sans baggage.

What happened to the good old days of "Woman as passive recipient?" What happened to being courted? What happened to sitting back under a parasol and granting someone a chance to try to win us over?

Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

I wish I was a little bit taller.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.