If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.

I don’t tweet for a very simple reason, which is that I drink.

Some people, their whole lives, are just injustice collectors. They’re going to find new injustices every day. That’s what they do, and that’s what they are.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

The only way you can really deal with creative people is with very loose reins.

A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

One of the nice things about being busy is it makes you focus on what's important to you and how you use your time.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Explore your own innermost thoughts to create content that will evoke deeply relatable emotions and passion in others.

Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow-beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by the time you blink.

Sectarian thinking is contagious and rapidly spread.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

What you've already known stops you to wonder and it gives you peace.

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

You gotta learn to laugh, it's the way to true love.

My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.