I love the structural part of the writing process.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

You have a brain and mind of your own. Use it, and reach your own decisions.

Being in a relationship doesn’t entitle you to anything. You don’t get what you expect, you get what you create.

Think out of the box but stay in the yard.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking eyes.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.