She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.

I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.

The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect.

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.

Tina Fey, a performer and head writer for 'Saturday Night Live,' has deftly adapted Rosalind Wiseman's nonfiction dissection of teenage girl societal interaction, 'Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence.'

My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

When you're on a boat, you're going to little islands and stuff. It's not a partying kind of thing.

I actually love shopping in vintage shops. What I do with the high street, I buy it, then keep it for a while and then wear it when everyone's not wearing it. So I do that: stock up, then keep it hidden!

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse.

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

I'm aware that, from the outside, this looks like I've got quite an ego.

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family.

I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy.

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

'Mad Men' is the greatest example of a perfect cast uniting with a perfect group of writers and creators to create a show that is bold, brutal, and brilliant.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.