My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you.
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
We never love a person, but only qualities.
Being fashionable does not mean you have to drain your bank account.
The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my childhood.
All of us have to recognize that we owe our children more than we have been giving them.
I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.
You don't get inspiration sitting at a drawing board or in front of your computer.
Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.
I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
He that is warm thinks all so.
Silence was never written down.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
