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.

Its not where your dreams take you, its where you take your dreams.

The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

You are the sum total of everything you've seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot- it's all right there.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.