It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying.

For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

My career could have been prolonged for longer

I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon.

When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance it becomes literature.

I get crazy upset when I feel mothers or babies are not getting the loving care they need.

My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.