I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Obviously when you're a teen you have no money, so you make, like, three outfits out of one dress. You're like, 'OK cut the arms here. Alright: New party, cut them to here.'

What is this place? Hogwarts? -- Alex Rider

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

Every time I do an interview, it's like serious therapy. But real therapy isn't something that I'd ever have. I feel fortunate that mentally everything is functioning well.

I am concerned about a president [Bill Clinton] under oath, being alleged to have committed perjury. I hope that he can rebut that and prove that did not happen.

Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.

One prefers, of course, on all occasions to be stainless and above reproach, but, failing that, the next best thing is unquestionably to have got rid of the body.

I require distance from the past in order to grasp the future.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.