I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.

Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.

I love exploring the past lives, just because I think it adds so much dimension to a personality.

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

I knew one person in the entire city of New York. Looking back, I should have been terrified, but I was just excited to living in New York on my own and acting professionally.

I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.

If there's any way that I can be of service to people who are going through something painful in their lives, even though the witch world is heightened, then that's great.

I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

People hate the idea of politicians, you see, but love the idea of authors, at least until they meet one.

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.

Become a millionaire not for the million dollars, but for what it will make of you to achieve it.

I'm very happy. I'm doing what I love.

If we don't stand up for others, who will be left to stand up for us?

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.