I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

Life is simply a collective thought. Didn't you know we made it all up? Don't you know it can be different?

Treat all fairly or they will seek revenge.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.

Success only hurts the first time.

The finest wits have their sediment.

God answered the prayers of animals.