We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever. Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.

I looked him in the eye. “I will always love you.” Then I plunged the stake into his chest.

She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

There was a lot of apologizing going on, but I realized that was how it was with people you cared about. You forgave each other and moved on.

Are you kidding? He's arrogant, sarcastic, likes to intimidate people, and—oh." Okay. Maybe she had a point.

What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again."Halos, " I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us.""That might be a stretch.

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . itwas all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

We have come to the determination to die, all of us, rather than abandon our God, and our religion.

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.

We all want to feel peace, and it is always available to us when we can let go of past hurts, hope for future successes, and be grateful for the moment we are living now.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

Work is what you do so that sometime you won't have to do it anymore.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.

I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man.

Sitting down with younger women writers and saying, "This is what I do and you can do this" is hugely important.

Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?