Or region has suffered more than its share of wars.

Or region has suffered more than its share of wars.

I'm not saying everybody has to walk around with a six-shooter, but they have to be prepared. You don't have to be militarized, but you have to be ready.

The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

I think women have to change their hairstyle from time to time.

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.

I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.

With movies, so much of it is, 'Who is the human being that is going to be directing it?' Because it is their medium. In a way, you are serving the director, and when it is someone that you feel you can have a lot of confidence in, it can make a big difference.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I've always only wanted to model. It really is the only life I want.

I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but I think in the heart of every young horror fan is his desire to create his own creature.

Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most.

Yet, it's our emotions and imperfections that make us human.

The writer's is an interior world, a world of the mind.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?