If we can't be true to ourselves, what can we be true to?

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Exciting happiness is joy, celebration, travelling, being in bed with a woman you desire.

The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.