Journalists have made celebrities into an industry.

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

Packing is always a nightmare.

Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream.

They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook.

We are never so lost that our angels cannot find us.

Animals are very easy to love and be friends with.

I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.

Life is just an ongoing process.

We're so bereft of support of theatre in this day and age.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.

Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.

Readers have actually changed the way I've done things, changed the course of my career even, about four or five times. Just from reader feedback.

You don't know how easy death is. It's - it's like a door. A person simply walks through it, and she's lost to you forever.

I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

I think a lot of times when people play superheroes, they stick with this, 'I am a superhero,' but the truth is that we're all human, and that human quality is really important to bring.

Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

I lived in upstate New York until I was ten years old and we moved overseas. I have a lot of nostalgic memories of that part of the world, and I love going back there by writing the Lakeshore books.