I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy.

I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt