I'm okay with the idea that slow and steady wins the race.

Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

I'm a real stay-at-home mom. I'm really hands-on. Everything else became secondary.

I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

No children are so divine that they do not need responsible parenting and be taught proper manners.

Wow, a trifecta: Murder, Madness and Magic, the three things you hate most of anything in the world.

All around us, Karachi kept moving

I don't want to be linked to anything negative. I don't want negative energy. I want everything positive around me.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

We resort, frankly, to pies, which is a comedy staple that's gone back, I guess, to since the first pie was ever baked.

I like the idea of craziness with discipline.

Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.