[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

I dislike pastiche; it attracts attention to the language only.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't write for a perceived audience or market. It may well have vanished by the time your book's ready.

Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.

Feminism hasn't failed, it's just never been tried.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear.

Give chance to your wheels to turn with their maximum potentials as long as your passion fuels your life. Don’t give up

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us

Opportunity doesn't knock on my door, I go and break its door down.

Beginning of our conversation with Donald Trump, I made it very clear that Mexico will not pay for the wall.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

I just love doing sitcoms. I'd be in them till I was gray if they'd have me.

Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.

I'm having too good of a time.

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.