Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western; we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting.

There are too many stars in the sky and none of them is overshadowing the other. Don't let anybody be a threat to your growth.

Yes, I always played the bad woman. I actually did.

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

If you know you're worth nothing, only a gamble with death can gratify your vanity.

Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Nothing ought to be told, I think that does not interest or kindle one's own mind in looking back; it is the only condition on which one can hope to interest or kindle other minds.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.