I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.

It doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks of your life. All that matters is what you think of it, and what you decide to make of it.

I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.

Your diet is a bank account. Good food choices are good investments.

I like to look nice, but I'm not marketing being beautiful.

I have the most beautiful daughter in the world and I'm grateful for her.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

The breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.

I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.

Too many people go through life without pausing to enjoy what they have.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

How can women be as thin as we are? We have personal trainers to work us out. We have specially prepared meals.