I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

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 many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended a lot.

Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

Our illness is often our healing.

Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.

For the most part I'll probably do floor exercise and balance beam. Those are the two things that I do.

The surest way to lose sight of who you are is to constantly compare yourself to others.