You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Freedom costs too much

I do not know where the road may end, but I will keep traveling onward.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

School means work and work means death. Let's all go take a nap.

If you look at my characters as a group, they all have a different relationship with the way that places can signify emotion in them - and the way those bonds can be shattered.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

It is by metaphor that language grows.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.