The ultimate date for me would be with someone fantastic, fun and great - and we'd go to the Lennox Lewis/Mike Tyson fight.

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

As when we can recall so vividlyWe almost touch, Or think of all the gestures that we failedTo make.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

In a way, Anglo-Saxon poetry cannot be translated.

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Action based only on principles isnt always good even if it feels good.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

I suppose you could switch grammars once you've seen 'use strict subs'.

The way I see it, we teach our children through modeling.

Petersburg, growing up at home, all by my family and friends, Petersburg really, city-raised me, you know everybody there.