I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.

Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.

I think I'm someone who can prattle on a long time about something, which serves me well as a novelist, but it's the enemy when I'm writing short stories.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

A psychologist’s job (if it’s done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.

Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

The single most important thing in coaching is turning out educated kids who are ready for society.

Happiness has this essential difference from what is commonly called pleasure, that virtue forms its basis, and virtue being the offspring of reason, may be expected to produce uniformity of effect.

I come from the theater, so for me rehearsal is vital and a way of life. There are many film directors who don't believe in it and some actors who prefer not to rehearse.

All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.

I'm a compulsive everything.

They sat it "Rains Blood" at scenes of battle... you truly...make blood rain

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!