I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Democracy is interactive... Its a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I try to fit in workouts whenever I can.

Never meet trouble half-way.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

When you really are country, and you don't just wear it like a piece of clothing or something, you really can't get away from it. It just is who you are

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.