Reading is your first line of defense against an empty head.

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

You don’t get lucky without preparation, and there’s no sense in being prepared if you’re not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.

Without passion, all the skill in world won't lift you above your craft

Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart.

Creativity isn't about avoiding frustration. It's about pushing through and coming out the other side.

Rachel opened her mouth to respond, but the head cut her off.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.

I do believe in fate.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

I don't want to say temporary, because temporary is such a trendy word.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.