I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.

I don't hate people, i assume they are dead!

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

Beware of the guy praying loudest in the amen corner.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

Reflected peace is the proof that you are right with God because you are at liberty to turn your mind to Him.

Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.