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“You are who you associate with. Look around at your five closest friends and that's who you are. If you don't want to be that person, you know what you gotta do.”
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“You'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.”
Source : "Surprise! She's a Bombshell (and You Can be One Too)". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. September 2, 2007.
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“The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.”
Source : George Plimpton (1994). “The Best of Plimpton”, p.48, Atlantic Monthly Press
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“When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.”
Source : George John Whyte-Melville (1871). “M. Or N.: "Similia Similibus Curantur."”, p.76
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“When no one else signs me.”
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“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”
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“I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.”
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“Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.”