Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.

Wanderlust is incurable.

He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance.

I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.

For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.

You need to know everything. You both need to be comfortable with sharing everything. If you can't you are NOT ready to get married.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!