You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

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.

Live the life you believe in.Live to the fullness.

I wanted to capture what language ability tests could never reveal: her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

Nobody thought that I was going to make it to the NBA. I only had a couple of believers growing up.

I like things that are civilized.

In a way, putting actors deep into this sort of complicated universe frees them from thinking about who they should be. They just are somebody.

The true Christian is a communicator.

We have one cat. I had eight cats and six dogs in Los Angeles.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?