My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

We're told that men are strong & brave, but I think women know how to endure, accept defeat & bear physical & mental agony much better than men.

He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

Trust yourself first then everybody will follow.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

Life is a game. Either you win or lose. Never allow the fear of losing prevent you from entering the game.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

Where's the guy who gave me Twinkies and Coke?

Resistance causes pain and lethargy. It is when we practice acceptance that new possibilities appear.

Those people in New York are not gonna change me none.

1991 for some people was a significant year in terms of punk rock. It was the year "punk broke".

You put faith in people sometimes that can't deliver for you. And those are mistakes and you have to... don't work with them again. It's pretty easy.