You can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Summer bachelors, like summer breezes, are never as cool as they pretend to be.

If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.

That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.

If you're looking for monogamy, you'd better marry a swan.

It is not enough to protect the source of the light

Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works

Fun. It‘s this crazy thing where people smile and laugh and are generally pleased. I could have sworn I saw you smile at least once

Writing is like a bird-watcher watching for birds: the stories are there: you just have to train yourself to look for them.

I think something many of us grapple with are those times we dread the practice of writing, no matter the project.

Girls only say I hate you to the guys that they love

Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been

I want to talk about political and economic fairy tales.

Political liberty is only good insofar as it produces private liberty.