I've always been a magnet for guilt.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Money is a great treasure that only increases as you give it away.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

And when my own Mark Antony Against young Caesar strove, And Rome's whole world was set in arms, The cause was,--all for love.

One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.

Go home and tell your daughters they are beautiful.

I hope people start to look at their lives as the most powerful, creative act they will ever offer this world.