"No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing."

“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”

“A query letter should be like a skirt.  Long enough to cover everything, but short enough to be exciting.”

“Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.”

“I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be made that will prompt me to alter various ideas I have about human evolution.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

“If you measure your happiness by the amount of liquid you have in your glass, you are either a cliché or an alcoholic.”

Source : Caprice Crane (2011). “With a Little Luck: A Novel”, p.20, Bantam

“Every new source from which man has increased his power on earth has been used to diminish the prospects of his successors.”

“Diets are based on the unspoken fear that you are a madwoman, a food terrorist, a lunatic…The promise of a diet is not only that you will have a different body; it is that in having a different body, you will have a different life. If you hate yourself enough, you will love yourself. If you torture yourself enough, you will become a peaceful, relaxed human being.”

Source : Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

“That dark humor has always been a part of what I've done. It's always been somewhat tongue-in-cheek.”