I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

It's good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people's views.

I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave.

There is going to be a hundred thousand doors slammed in your face before one opens, so feel ok about taking rejection.

The most beautiful thing is telling someone you love them, because you can only love another person if you love yourself

Honestly, there was a time after I came out that I really did not think I would be working again.

So the characters that I choose, I like to make sure that they have depth and that they have some sort of bite. It's more fun.

There’s a fear that grasps each individual and what they think is right and what they think is wrong.

It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.

They don't teach you just how to be in school. There's no class on that. There’s no multiple choice test for Why Do I Feel This Way?

You have your private life and you have your public life, and just don’t let them interfere.

Children get used to the thought of their fate depends on powerful parents deciding everything in their life

You know you're writing a good thriller when you make yourself paranoid.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

I walk with God, and He protects me. That may very well be true. I don't mean to make that sound like a joke, in case He is in charge.

If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.

Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun.

A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.