I wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard

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.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris, ' one of the greatest games ever made.

Ronald Reagan said, 'Trust, but verify.' President Obama is 'trust, but vilify.' He trusts our enemies and vilifies everyone who disagrees with him.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.

It is the leader's role to lift followers out of their everyday selves up to a higher level of awareness, motivation, and commitment.

The stuff that made me mad 20 years ago doesn't really make me mad any more.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.

You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.