I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

May the Lord grant you great grace, great strength and great wisdom.

I am passionate about the truth. Passion is very different from fundamentalism.

Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away.

You do not pursue potential conflict unless you hold power over your foe.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.

I do love genres, but I love finding new ways into the genre, or making that world fresh again.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

In photography, you always have both the medium and the depicted subject at the same time.