I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

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.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

When one side benefits more than the other, that's a win-lose situation. To the winner it might look like success for a while, but in the long run, it breeds resentment and distrust.

Sometimes my work needs to be photographic, sometimes it needs words, sometimes it needs to have a relationship to music, sometimes it needs to have all three and become a video projection.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

Life is tough, and if we don't laugh, we're going to - our head will explode.

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy, standing out pays off in the long run.

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

The very point of Labor's Zionist program is to have as much land as possible and as few Arabs as possible!