"There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote."

“Being at home with my family always inspires me. I find it hard to be inspired when I'm on the move. I'm not creative when I'm jet-lagged and sleeping in strange hotels.”

“I do like Superman as a character, and I have followed him throughout the years.”

“Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.”

Source : "Irwin Winkler: A Film Producer's Producer". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 8, 2007.

“Social media is changing the way we communicate and the way we are perceived, both positively and negatively. Every time you post a photo, or update your status, you are contributing to your own digital footprint and personal brand.”

“Man alone, during his brief existence on this earth, is free to examine, to know, to criticize, and to create. In this freedom lies his superiority over the forces that pervade his outward life. He is that unique organism in terms of matter and energy, space and time, which is urged to conscious purpose. Reason is his characteristic and indistinguishing principle. But man is only man -- and free -- when he considers himself as a total being in whom the unmediated whole of feeling and thought is not severed and who impugns any form of atomization as artificial, mischievous, and predatory.”

Source : Ruth Nanda Anshen (1971). “Language: An Enquiry Into Its Meaning and Function”, Associated Faculty PressInc

“Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.”

“History is the "know thyself" of humanity - the self-consciousness of mankind.”

“I am freedom and I will eat your heart”

Source : Catherynne M. Valente (2015). “Six-Gun Snow White”, p.49, Simon and Schuster