I am not cruel —only truthful.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Nonviolence is kindling light of love into the dark places and budding trust from the threshold of hopelessness.

You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

I can only answer for Chuck Grassley; I can't answer for anybody else.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Jobs follow people. People don't follow jobs.

He finally understood that God's presence was everywhere, at all times, and was experienced by everyone at one time or another.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.