Poise and indifference so often look the same.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Like a good-looking John Merrick, mine was a face that looked really shit.

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

I live now and only now and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.

Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

I have a lot of energy, a lot of interest, a lot of desire.