Everything changes. The more I try to hold on to the moment, the more it slips through my fingers.

I try to remember that the job - as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy - of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it.

It is in the thousands of days of trying, failing, sitting, thinking, resisting, dreaming, raveling, unraveling that we are at our most engaged, alert, and alive.

Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.

Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write

If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

The only graceful thing to do is recognize and embrace what is actually happening, rather than fight against it.

My desk is covered with talismans: pieces of rose quartz, wishing stones from a favorite beach.

How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art

Cosmopolitanism emphasizes and is grounded in a _singular relationality between and among people

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational settings.

I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry.

It's like a garden: Whatever you water the most will do the best. At some point, you decide whether you'll water your career or your relationship more.

Focus on giving smiles away and you will always discover that your own smiles will always be in great supply!

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.