My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.

I would, however, start writing fiction about 10 years before I actually did, because it's such great fun to do, many times more creative than nonfiction.

I'm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.

It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

the rich are different only because people treat them as if they were.

You can browse to your heart's content but it's hard work and not easy on the feet unless you do it through catalogs or the Internet, and I like to touch and try on the things I buy.

For my part, I think that the mystery is always greatest where there is the most - emptiness.

it is strange, is it not, how an accident of millimeter here, a millimeter there, makes one face so important.

Pm convinced that it's energy and humor. The two of them combined equal charm.

It's not enough merely to believe there is a God. You must believe in the God who is there.

It feels like I was made to fit here, in the space beneath his heart.

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role.

Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.

The most difficult object in painting is yourself because you're always at issue

I am not clear what the U.S. means when they use the term "entity." For us here in Taiwan, we believe that we are a country, a democratic country.