I researched children's rights, divorce law, and parental kidnapping. Millions of children and parents are touched by the inadequacy of the legal system to deal with the human heart.

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

Childhood is supposed to be happy, and if you can't remember yours with any happiness, what hope have you later, when life starts handing you fresh grief?

Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

Daddy loved his son. Daddy believed his son walked on water. Daddy, Mike had long ago decided, was an idiot.

Anisette! You will eat your food, not demonstrate aerial warfare across the table with it.

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.

A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.

How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people.

There are Plebes in all classes.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Julia [Roberts]. She's got two kids and animals, and I think she's a night nibbler. There'd be crumbs everywhere.