. . . as long as there are movement and harmony, there are words.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

I'm not a sad person, upset the whole time, but I seem to be quite emotional.

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

I was a huge comic book fan, and I still am.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives 10,000 years and a man can't die soon enough.

Modi Model of Development is more a hype than reality, and the Congress has always stood for inclusive development.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.