Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.

This is about doing something difficult and not stopping when it becomes not just difficult, but cold and difficult...or cold and wet and difficult...or cold and wet and dark and difficult.

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

Remember, never to fear the power of evil more than your trust in the power and love of God.

The background of samsara is bliss

What people think is relative just like who people love.

A woman seldom writes her Mind but in her Postscript.

In the end I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.

God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

I really love Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Edward Norton. I also like Ryan Gosling and Rick Bentley. And of the girls I like Naomi Watts and Juliette Binoche, and I would like to work with...

The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

When you are ignorant of the enemy but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal.