Public space can be a lot better with some private space to contradict it and vice versa. It keeps the system alive. If the system is just one thing,….

All religions do not point to God.

I invented my life because I wasn't pleased with it..

the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others..

I say, let's learn more and then speculate..

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger..

Blushes cannot be counterfeited..

Through my fiction, I make mainstream readers see the new Americans as complex human beings, not as just The Other..

Nobody had ever told me that anything could be like this..

I don't join or leave things lightly..

When you have to work, work with a smile..

I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned..

I do what I do because I love it..

I could have coached better..

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone..

You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong..

Foolish writers and readers are created for each other..

It's not personal, it's strictly business.

I didn't want to admit that I was a performer. A performer meant spotlights - a performer had connotations of theater. I would have preferred agent t….

My preference would have been to not go back on the air after 9\11, at all until the time felt right but that wasn't an option..

A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind..