There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

I didn't even know I was a feminist until I read it on the back of one of my own books.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fiction stretches our sensibilities and our understanding, as mere information never can.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine

She could see that to lose a sibling was hard: it could only seem unnatural:out of time, out of order, a vicious re-run of your own departure into nothingness.

It's what we think we know that keeps us from learning.

Never lose hope, though everything's bleak, though you feel so weak. Never shrink back, never look back, especially when you know that you're fighting for the right reasons, for the right people.

As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.

Time is running out for Iran to address the international community's growing concerns about its nuclear program.

It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

I don't mean to complain. I wouldn't trade my life for anything.

Empathy is even better than talking in one language

I didn't think I'd ever be an actor.

Protest is when I say...'I don't agree with something'.... Resistance is when I ensure that things with which I disagree no longer take place