The past doesn't haunt us, we haunt the past.

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I wouldn't want to waste any of my brain cells on forgiving if it's holding me back.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance stupidity and perjury.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

What you believe yourself to be, you are.

It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude.

A historian should not be didactic-that is a word that makes my blood run cold.

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

If the nails are weak, your house will collapse. If your verbs are weak and your syntax is rickety, your sentences will fall apart.

I try to make a lot of time for friends and family because I think that's really important and for pleasurable experiences.