"I didn't want to leave things the way we had, unresolved, ... and tried to tell myself he cared about me enough not to look elsewhere for what I wasn't giving him."

“It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”

“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”

“Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in Team of Rivals, he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious.”

Source : "Obama-Clinton ticket for 2012" by Douglas Wilder, www.politico.com. August 2, 2010.

“My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.”

“What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?”

“I love being an advocate for women as we get older so that we can feel comfortable with ourselves. It's all about being healthy for me now.”

Source : "Actress Andie MacDowell". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 16, 2010.

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings.”

“She holds up a finger. "I'm getting to it. Don't rush a girl in the middle of her exposition.”