I am an Ultimate, ” she vowed, the walls of her heart quaking with ferocity and determination. “And I have thepower to do the impossible.

Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)

I won't change anything because I think the most important thing is being yourself and that's what I'm going to continue to do.

My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that's a lovely addition.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.

Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.

When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?