It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

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.

The love of all people except the French people, is deep in the mind of the great doctors of the French Republic.

My ability is greater than my disability.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.

I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Time flies, and what is past is done.

What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee.