Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Be real, because a mask only fools people on the outside. Pretending to be someone you're not takes a toll on the real you, and the real you is more important than anyone else.

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, "You are mad; you are not like us."

The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?

There is no such thing as having attained enough. Life is an endless possibility.

God always works through people.

I collect jewelry for a story - so something I got on a trip or something I got from my family. You know it always needs to have a meaning for me.

Art is an experience, not an object.

My only weapon is my pen, I'm a songwriter.