If you live in the same small place long enough, something you don't like is bound to happen

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else.

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

among a coward's weapons, cynicism is the nastiest of all

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

You will have a lot of difficulties in achieving goals if you are indecisive and if you are afraid of incorrect actions

Embrace your inner goddess, never let go of the light you carry within.

The only way you can reach your full potential is if you open up and allow your self to be exposed to how you really feel.

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

In terms of the people that President [Donald] Trump is going to have around him, the cabinet. Predominantly white, predominantly male.

I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.

If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you’ll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.

The lazy manage to keep up with the earth's rotation just as well as the industrious.

What happened to goodbye?

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.