I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

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.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

atheists are the most faithful people I ever met

If you are doing whatever a shepherd is ordering you to do, then you are a real sheep, a poor submissive being!

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.

A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

Freedom solutions - cross-state insurers; health cooperatives.

Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked, to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence.

You're looking at each and every potential corner for an air bubble to escape. Absolutely! You're on the best of your game.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

I have never been the stereotypical figure skater.