I really love writing comedy. Writing romantic comedy is even nicer because you get to write about how insane we all act when we're falling in love.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Build your self in the Holy Faith.

What business does memory have with time?

You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

In this world no one rules by love; if you are but amiable, you are no hero; to be powerful, you must be strong, and to have dominion you must have a genius for organizing.

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

You've got to find the force inside you.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?