Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Just write. It doesn't matter what you write. Just sit at your desk and write.

We don't know the Devil's side of the story, because God wrote all the books.

When in doubt, reinforce your self-trust.

The Holy Bible is the best of all books.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Harry and I have been sweethearts and married more than forty years - and no matter where I was, when I put out my hand Harry's was there to grasp it.

A friend of Nicole Ritchie told the New York Post that Nicole is definitely pregnant.

When someone told me, 'Ang ganda mo' I answered 'Sana ikaw rin.'

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.