My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness.
I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.
Birth control that really works - every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
Since Bush has been in office, African-American women have fallen behind in terms of income and wages.
It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.
America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.