The more we shelter children from every disappointment the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me.

Don't remember me as too nice or beautiful or funny because then you'll be disappointed.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly even in the face of hostility in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing because disapproval is freedom.

You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear.

My greatest fear is disappointing the reader so each book has to be better than the one before.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.