Sometimes journalists ask me, "What's the message?" There is no message. I think that fiction should not be trying to give messages. Just tell a story.

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

There is very seldom any true secret.

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.

(I was) my own teacher and pupil, and thanks to the efforts of both, they were not discontented with each other.

It is, after all, absurd that in 2017 women are still at best second-class citizens.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be until someone comes along who can test them.

I and other humans no difference.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.