She hadn't realized she was lonely until she began to understand that other people were not.

Anger was simple, self-sustaining as a cactus. You couldn't look too closely at it, lest the spines get you in the eye.

You need one person who knows you... Just one person you can't fool, even when you fool yourself.

But that was the least of it. He knew the worst of her, and that was better.

The best lies were the simplest and made the most sense, in the mind and in the mouth.

Grace hated lying, got no joy from it, and this was how she knew she wasn't pathological.

The universe would give you whatever you wanted if you twisted its arm hard enough.

They're book addicts.

There's no such thing as an evil race, just evil circumstances that make people do evil things.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

I never saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one: But I can tell you anyhow I'd rather see than be one.

At a very basic level, I think television exists for game shows, and I think it always will.

What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am.

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

I think people who do comedy tend to do it well, and to do it painfully and truthfully. So making the leap to drama is easier for them because everything they've done is from pain anyway.

My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.