"To have too much time is not good, you have to force yourself. And human beings aren't meant for true freedom. I've learned that, having had it."

“In the end, in England, when you want to find out how people are feeling, you always go to the pubs.”

“Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.”

Source : Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

“In the beginning, I would find a character I understood. That was my focus. Not now - but you basically get offered the exact same thing you just did. Which I find hilarious. I did 'The Vow,' and then I had every love story you can imagine thrown at me. And now I'm getting offers for comedies.”

“The less you talk, the more you're listened to.”

Source : "A Small Encounter With Abigail Van Buren" by Lea Lane, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

“Ghetto humor is the social twin of fantasy; together they sustain the powerless, who accomplish miracles through illusion.”

Source : Sheila Ballantyne (1983). “Norma Jean, the termite queen”, Viking Pr

“Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom.”

“Chess is like war on a board”

“I don't think, until the end, I had read a positive review of Boy Meets World.”