Just once, she'd like to be the exciting one, the girl somebody wanted.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

The Plutocracy’s insatiable hunger for pixelated information is enough to put a bulimic Pac-Man to shame

I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.

In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

God is creativity, not a Creator.

What is so seductive about texting, about keeping that phone on, about that little red light on the BlackBerry, is you want to know who wants you.

We made it,' he shouted. 'Not bad for a prison break, eh?' 'Good thinking Jake.