I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

Oh, Life, I am yours. Whatever it is you want of me, I am ready to give.

Passion is a strong emotion and the enthusiasm to do something.

Love yourself.Love who you are.

When life's problems seem overwhelming look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

The true is the whole.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

I've killed lots of Arabs in my life - and there's no problem with that.

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot.