The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.

Dogs are like kids. Cats are like roommates.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

You only live once, so enjoy the ride.

A cow's heaven is a flower's idea of hell.

Life is like the ocean. You can either be the ball floating on the waves, or make your own waves.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

Good things you have to make happen. Bad things happen all by themselves.

Dogs will give you unconditional love until the day they die. Cats will make you pay for every mistake you've ever made since the day you were born.

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

I hate abortions, but just could not make that choice for someone else.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up.

You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.