Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

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.

Fighting, laughing, loving or crying, if it was with him, I was where I wanted to be.

I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.

This is not about what party you're part of. This is about right and wrong, ... the conscience of this nation.

it is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

Yes, I was really good in physics and in math.

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

I'm not Triple H, and I certainly am not John Cena.

My chief concern is to try to be an humble, earnest Christian.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!