“You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.”

“You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.”

“The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.”

“If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the laws of supply and demand, he hones his skill to stand up but make sure he's never counted.”

“Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.”

“Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.”

“I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.”