Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got those documents from. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS.

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column.

I didn't dig it out, it was given to me. They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it.

If you don't take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.

Nurture your great spirit for a great self.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

The ouster of Jill Abramson as executive editor of 'The New York Times' sent shock waves through the media landscape. Reports that she was fired thanks in part to a soured relationship based on the 'Times' alleged sexist pay discrepancy only made those shock waves stronger.

Insurance companies don't make anything.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage or, in my case, also on screen, you have to be true.

The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.

I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Outdoor hockey is what it is all about.

Any emotion if it is sincere is involuntary.

Ed Kowalczyk is my favorite singer.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

Portraits are about revealing aspects of an individual.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

Of course I went and got 'Breaking Dawn' at midnight the night it came out and read it instantly. I was like, 'Yes!'

Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.