Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.

Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

When I met my husband, I refused to invite him home for Passover because I was embarrassed my mother might serve all the catered dishes in the wrong order.

Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.