I'm a lousy journalist.

I was 37 years old. I wanted to support myself by writing.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.

I'd like to get out of here without having to talk to the producer.

Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

The more interesting the 9-to-5 work is, the more it takes away from my real work, which is writing.

I'm a lousy journalist.

I was dictating to my mother when I was 5.

It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. For everyone but you, that is.

My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.

My abiding theme is separations.

I do know that Syria never will recognize Lebanon as an independent country, and the declaration of independence of Lebanon took place in 1943. Syria never - Syria never have recognized Lebanon. They regard Lebanon as part of Syria.

Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.

There are three reasons for breast feeding the milk is always at the right temperature it comes in attractive containers and the cat cant get it.

My sister was drowning in the ocean once, and my brother and I dove in and saved her. True story. She owes us her life. It's great leverage; we abuse it all the time!

I don't want to see the military falling. I want to see the military rising to dignified heights of professionalism and true patriotism.

The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.

If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.

If you're always looking back at what you've lost, you'll never discover the treasure that lies just up ahead.

Environmentalism has failed.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

Everything I do is to support my passion, and that is the rescuing of animals!

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

To have any doubt in your body is the biggest weakness an athlete can have. There are times when I physically can't get myself to go for a skill because I'm thinking, 'My knee hurts really bad.'

Some of the kimonos took as long as four to five months to make, with all the layers that go into it.

I'm a man of my word.

Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.

Very rarely will you listen to the radio in a judgmental way, the way you'll watch telly.

I've done all kinds of things I said I wouldn't do and, of course, now I'm glad. Thrilled.

I don't wake up in the morning and say, 'Jeez, I feel great today. I think I'll write a song.' I mean, anything is more interesting to me than writing a song. It's like, 'I think I'd like to write a song... No, I guess I better go feed the cat first.' You know what I mean? It's like pulling teeth. I don't enjoy it a bit.

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Two days ago, I was killed in LA. CNN reported that. What if my grandmother had seen that and had a heart attack? People talk about lyrical content. There is no media responsibility. Movies, the porn industry, it has to be across the board or it's ineffective.

There's a fraudulent root element of comedy in that we say things night after night as though they are rolling effortlessly from the brain and off the tongue, when in fact they are crafted over weeks and months and years.