People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

Life on this planet on its own is temporal. So tell me why you think your problems are permanent. No condition is permanent.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

I love creativity, with no fear of what people think.

The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.

Spend at least as much time researching a stock as you would choosing a refrigerator.