It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.

We are the wire God is the current. Our only power is to let the current pass through us.

There's nothing crazy about not letting our companies bring their money back into their country.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.

Madness strips you of memory and leaves you scrabbling around on the floor of your brain for the snatches and snippets of what happened, what was said, and when.

No one has a perfect life. Everybody has something that he wishes was not the way it is.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.