Life is a journey of realization, which often ends in that place where dreams never begin.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back.

Thank you hard taco shells for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you.

Nobody is beyond the reach of the Gospel.

I'm not the one buying love. He's the one buying love.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.

Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive.