The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.

White pants should be worn on two occasions: One, never. And two, if you're selling ice cream.

A thoughtful and well-informed consideration of US government in relation to American society.

We think of immigration as a Western issue but, of course, it isn't.

I loved all the world's mythologies.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

Does fuzzy logic tickle?

Either we're aware and present, or we're not. There is no half way.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.