I want to be humbled. I want to meet people more messed up than I am. I want to get lost and come out the other end having no idea who I am.

There is a rule in Hell: Don’t trust anyone who takes time out of their day to help you.

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.

The world today is divided into the free and the enslaved.

Feminism is just like HIV awareness: It's not something we don't need anymore, it's something that is just as important as it was a few decades ago. It is a very important fight.

Many people put a green button on their collar and feel good, just like a lot of people put an American flag on their lapels and feel patriotic. It's not enough.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them.