I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought.

Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else.

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision. You gone have to ask yourself, "Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.

....I realized I actually had a choice in what I could believe.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.

That which yields is not always weak.

If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.

The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

I am very clear that when I work with a director what he or she says is the last word.

Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?

There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.