It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

Fathers never have exactly the daughters they want because they invent a notion a them that the daughters have to conform to.

One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

I never wanted to be "a writer"; I only ever aspired to be an science fiction writer. They'll tear that badge out of my cold dead hands.

One of the strongest and most persistent elements in national development has been that inheritance of political traditions and usages which the new settlers brought with them.

I was lucky enough to meet the Material Girl twice.

God does His miracles of transformation through miraculously transformed people.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

To make a movie is very grueling at times. Long, long hours and cold weather.

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.