I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

It is hard to believe that something that seems so permanent was once so different. Change. I guess that really is one thing you can count on.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.

Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.