I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

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.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

We need to have an understanding that no matter how difficult the situation is, the victory is ours

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.

Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger, by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

Our Country will, I believe, sooner forgive an Officer for attacking his Enemy than for letting it alone.

I am an alien, I have extraordinary powers, with more to come, and I can do things that no human would dream of, but I still look like a fool.

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.