A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.

Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.

Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

He might be a man without character, but she was a woman without courage. Of the two, which was worse?