I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain.

Smile… Even when your life is at its worst, you never know when you’ll meet the one who takes your breath away!

Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I hope I inspire women to appreciate their muscular calves.

I think I could drink my own blood. Is that weird?

Get out there, even if it's a hike or something, just break up the monotony of going to the gym.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Just rest and soon enough, you'll be home." I assured her as she slowly closed her eyes and the smile on her face faded.

Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Hate is a product of the unfulfilled life.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

Nothing made you feel so useless as another person's grief.

You ever want to see real witchcraft, you watch people protecting their comfort, their beliefs.

Things are simple when you're going to die.