It seems ironic, expecting the unexpected, like she had fabricated pieces of her story to make it more interesting. Considering my boredom with the current version, I can't imagine the first draft.

There must be logical minds among all species if they hope to survive. Not everyone can be bridled with hope and optimism.

If you always depend on others then you'll never succeed. It's best to learn that lesson now.

I'm my own person, and in that I'm unique. Pain, anguish, those are all just part of the experience. The more you go through, the stronger you become.

One person should never decide what happens to the majority.

The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

One thing is painfully clear-I can't trust anyone.

There had been trials involving water, a time when witches were persecuted, bound, and tossed into the largest nearby body of water to see if they would sink or swim.

Things around here function on lies because if people knew the truth, it wouldn't work.

The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometimes with fall between them.

There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.

Live more, whine less. Smile more, worry less. Love more, hate less.

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

It is vital to any organization, to be strong and effective, to be ethical.

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.