“Center your life around what matters most to you!”

“No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.”

“People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life. Don't you realize, someone else's version of someone else's life is still fiction? It's still a story. But it has no imagination. That's what you people have done. You've murdered imagination.”

“Sometimes it just doesn’t seem to matter that I know what I should be doing. I still do what I am gonna do.”

“Anyone who tells you her life is like a book has either been reading some bad books or is not being straight with you or herself about her life.”

“The most powerful thing you can give in life is a word.The most dangerous thing you can hear is a word.”

“The single most important thing anyone needs to know about me," Kate hepburn said, "is that I am totally, completely the product of two damn fascinating individuals who happened to be my parents. I've had a pretty remarkable life, but compared to my mother and father, I'm dull.”