I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

I had a dream about you last night. We stopped telling each other about our dreams when we realized we were still inside them.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

I know for an actual fact that the things I say or that my brothers say on the mic are valid for life. What we say, if you're smart you get it, if you're stupid, you learn about 3 years later.

I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.