Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.

The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.

The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies.

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

That took balls.""Please, " I said with a snort, "that took ovaries. Of which I have two.

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left.

We probably release 1% of the products that we are working on.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

You can see in our churches most of the males are pastors. Most of the deacons are males. But if the woman withdrew her support from our churches, you'd have to close the doors.

White girls tell me Hey Nicki your camp rules! Is that why you get more head than shampoos?

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.