There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

You'll change. You'll see. Wait till you meet Mr. Right.

When you're in that state of grief, any little breeze, any hello, any confrontation, any grazing of someone meeting your eyes, might cause you suddenly to burst into grief. You could be looking at a jar of peanut butter in the supermarket, and then start crying.

I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.

The stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going to tell you the truth.

If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.