I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

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.

Close your lips in anger, open in admiration

We can easily teach our kids hot to be kind, compassionate and respectful when we are kind, compassionate and respectful to them.

Don't always cherish a past memory, Do something today, that you will never forget !!

My wit is only as stupid as the audience.

Life is not a burden, but we make it one when we refuse to accept things as they are.

The more you see what other people do, the more you learn about yourself.

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

I am persuaded that the greater part of our complaints arise from want of exercise.

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

We want a state of things in which crime will not pay, a state of things which allows every man the largest liberty compatible with the liberty of every other man.