"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

"My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living."

"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

"Mind you, I've always been a very off-message type of fat broad one who gladly admits she reached the size she is now solely through lack of discipline and love of pleasure, and who rather despises people (except those with proven medical conditions) who pretend that it is generally otherwise."

"I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general."

"I love mixing amateurs and professionals."

"If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go."