I write to breathe life back into memory.

Listen, if you choose to believe nothing else that transpires here, believe this: your body does not have a soul; your soul has a body, and souls never, ever die.

Only the Strong is a lushly atmospheric and passionately written piece of work, bursting with colorful characters that shine on every page.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

It is not easy to compete when you have LD, but it is possible.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

Dinner is to a day what dessert is to dinner.

Invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

I was up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class.