You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. … It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.