If what a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else. Once the life begins to seem secure, one feels the freedom to complain.

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.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

I can’t remember exactly when I started to steal, but I do remember being aware of the fact that if I wanted to enjoy myself and be popular, money was the way to do it.

If your thoughts, feelings and actions are not in harmony of what you desire, you won't materialize it.

A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

The soul aspiring pants its source to mount,As streams meander level with their fount.

Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.