I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.

Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.

I like to come into my workspace and feel its a living environment and not frozen, which is why I often change or add to the pictures on the wall.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

If you have to choose between character and reputation. Choose character every single time. Then you can be authentic and straight. Nothing to lose.

He could sell the Pope on financing a Mormon tabernacle.

It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance have nothing left for themselves.

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

God prepares leaders with a specific place and task in mind. Training methods are adapted to the mission, and natural and spiritual gifts are given with clear purpose.

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

So many religions, so many paths to reach the one and the same goal.

Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed.

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wanted a show business career, but I was suppressing it.