Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

You cannot perform acts of evil in the name of a greater good, because the good suffers. It is corrupted by what has been done in its name.

Pay attention to the behavior of the most successful people.

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

We are going to deal with DACA with heart.

The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle.

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

I know that sometimes the chemistry just isn't there between the model, photographer, hair and make-up. It's nobody's fault and you just have to do better next time.

It takes as much discipline to be a mother and a wife as it does to do anything else.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

Literature is composed of quarter truths, and the quarters are often spent on penny candy.