Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

My ambition was to live like music.

Of course there’s something there; unfortunately, there’s always something ‘there.’ Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

What are you thinking?” She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

Whenever young writers ask me for advice, I always say you have to be able to take a lot of rejection because, unless you're very lucky, that's what's going to happen.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I think people hold back all kinds of things. And in a way, they just want to be nice. They want to be civil.

I know several women my age who are really poor...because they spent most of their energy taking care of children.

I think if a woman is very happy with herself and at ease with her choices, it goes a long way toward making other people feel at ease with her.

The greatest strength are rooted in love, joy, peace, patient, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.

We are all fools with our sons. We wipe them and suckle them and all we expect is for them to be grateful to the end of their days.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to.

In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

That was only a yard away from being an inch-perfect pass.

I don't think [Bill Clinton] does anything - I don't think it's ill will. I don't think he's evil in the sense that he hates the Bill of Rights. He does what he figures will help him politically.

Becoming a mother is the best thing that's happened to me.