You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.

One good thing about being a woman is we haven't too many examples yet of what a genius looks like. It could be me.

We don't know the effects we have on each other, but we have them.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

Maybe that's good to not feel like you have to keep up when there's so much to keep up with right now. It's bottomless.

There's so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn't. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

The only way to get truly great intuitive information is to show up and get out of your own way.

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

I'd rather buy clothes then buy a bed

Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.

You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.