When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

Usually comedy is only available to us ladies in the romantic comedy. That's why I hate romantic comedies.

Sandra Bullock

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Barbara Sher

Well, the truth is always what should be told. And the truth and the knowledge of the truth is what everybody should represent, regardless of the consequences of doing it.

Johnny Isakson

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

William Shakespeare

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

John Ruskin

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Daniel Craig

If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

Carol Bellamy

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Anatole France

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Barbara Lee

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow