I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...

Refer me to one atheist who denies the existence of God.... Etymologically, as well as philosophically, an atheist is one without God. That is all the 'A' before 'Theist' really means.

Theatre is not supposed to represent psychology but passions, which is totally different. Its role is to represent the soul's different emotional states, and those of the mind, the world history.

Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

In fact, I would advise against anyone doing reality shows. I won't be doing 'X Factor' just yet.

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you.

I figure a lot of folks are probably looking to find out if Moses Malone is into that stuff, but the closest I come to drugs is drinking a Coca-Cola. I don't want that cocaine; it's not for me.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.