I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

I never thought in a million years I'd be that healthy girl who wakes up every morning to exercise. After being called 'cherubic and chubby,' I'm rocking a bikini!

Kelly Osbourne

You have to love the characters you play, even if no one else does.

Glenn Close

The public is a part of my real life.

Placido Domingo

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Bill Gates

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Groucho Marx

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

Allan Bloom

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

Marion Jones

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Ezra Bowen

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

T. S. Eliot

The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.

William Shakespeare

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

Eric Liddell

Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.

Pier Paolo Pasolini