I don’t do research. I never have.

It’s funny because I’ve made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.

Obamacare sucks, it can’t be fixed.

I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

I’ve lived a very colorful life, and I’ve said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I’ve never apologized for them – and I won’t.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for ‚Automobile Magazine.‘ I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I’m more proud of that than anything.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

I come from a family of 12, so I kind of got a little lost as a child.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If you can talk, you can write.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

I might just write a novel next. I don’t know!

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

We all have done something unethical.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

It’s a nice reader, but there’s nothing on the iPad I look at and say, ‚Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.‘

There’s nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, ‚Well, okay, I’m going to do something of high artistic worth.‘

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Faith never makes a confession.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

My biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

When I do have free time, I spend it with friends, or I spend it at home writing or making something.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.

When it comes to our everyday habits, it’s important to ask: ‚Am I putting God first?‘

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that’s it.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.