There will always be someone, a friend, a relative, a co-worker even, just someone, who will be willing to try that bad thing with you. And they won’t judge you, so don’t worry about that.

Today is a beautiful day. I AM deeply grateful for everything in my life. ALL is welcome here!

If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.

I don't prepare for my roles. I don't watch movies to get inspired. I don't dig deep. I'll never be that type of actor, and I doubt that I ever will be.

I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.

Adversity is the true school of the mind.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.

I think you need to close your mouth cuz you aint gun tie me down.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

There is no wild beast so ferocious as Christians who differ concerning their faith.