If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

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.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

Become dangerously open to all points of view. Are you dangerously open, or safely closed?

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.