Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Fear is the glue that holds us together.

Every relationship will suffer to some degree without finding self-acceptance and treating yourself like your own best friend.

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

I didn’t study medicine to watch people die." -Kira

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

In the locker rooms, I'm always suggesting, "You need Berlei." Because it's the best brand for women and for me.