Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.

I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.