Supermom wasn't a bad job description. The pay was lousy if you were talking about real money. But the payoff was priceless in so many other ways.

Feelings follow actions.

Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying.

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.

The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.

I got sunburnt which is obviously a drag for me because in theory the sun is supposed to kill me.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and I think they'll say no.

Discontent is like ink poured into water, which fills the whole fountain full of blackness.

Lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless. And lonely is healing if you make it.