If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...

I certainly don't understand all these strange new feelings inside me--am I here because I love him, or because I owe him?

I'm always thinking, 'my career is over, I have to move back to Omaha, and work on the railroad, with the rest of my family. So no, I'm never thinking I've 'arrived.' I think that's a good way to be.

I don't like to follow too many trends because trends tend to make women look like they are wearing uniforms.

Welcome to the 77th and last Oscars.

He sighed heavily. "Girls are mean. At least faeries simply kill you if they don't want you around." He put a hand on the wall, leaning against it and tapping his foot impatiently.

Who you are depends on who you meet.

The writer's role is to menace the public's conscience. He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism and he must focus on the issues of his time.

Baltimore is permissiveness. The pleasures of the flesh, the table, the bottle, and the purse are tolerated with a civilized understanding.

I wanted it to live in all the diverse neighborhoods I've lived in.