Fourth is the worst position to finish. You just missed the podium.

I represented women with unplanned pregnancies from age 14 to 40, and they range from living in their car to living in the nicest neighborhoods in town.

I've never had time for friends. I've always worked too hard.

My role is what I make it to be. That's just playing the right way, being a good teammate and hopefully everything else takes care of itself.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

The president's dream of a worldwide liberal utopia is going to undermine the security of the United States.

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

I love plain Lays potato chips - that's like my favorite food.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

Parma is an amazing Parmesan cheese substitute made from walnuts. It tastes like a dream and is healthy, to boot!

Parents shouldn't assume children are made out of sugar candy and will break and collapse instantly. Kids don't. We do.

Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me...

In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through...

Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.

A woman who doesn't want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That's a question they're asked the minute they get married, it's a question they're asked constantly, 'Don't you want to have...

The Chinese are planning a manned mission to the moon sometime after 2020, and subsequently, to Mars. The U.S. has abandoned that dream.

Dude, I throw a stick. Come on. I get paid a pretty good salary to throw a stick.

No matter how extreme I've had to be, no matter how eccentric people perceive me to be, because I'm outside the norms, demonstrating that age can be arrested would change everything.

With regard to what is designed really well, I think people are the best-designed objects in the world. Seriously.

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science.

You can be as nice as you want off the field, but when you're on the field, you're going to do everything you can to win.

The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

It's what all writers dream of, that our work finds a measure of immortality that long outlives the words of any critic.

When we talk about kids earning commission for chores, we always have at least one parent who argues that children should do chores because they are part of the family. I agree, but if you don't...

I remember on the 'Midnight Special' seeing a video with Meat Loaf. I think it was the 'Bat Out Of Hell' video. It was like this raging huge fat guy, and he's really sexual, and he's really sweaty,...

I'm looking to try to do more out there and just taking advantage of the opportunities that I've been given.

When you're doing a television production, or you're with a company, there is some stress; there is pressure to perform, and it's a little tougher, but it also comes with the benefits of having huge...

The 'New York Times' is my homepage because it forces me to go right into the news.