We have different kinds of intimacy with many, many people. I'm disappointed by well-written novels that only deal with two or three people.

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.

It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare, you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.""And what is that nightmare, Craig?""Life.

Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

Give to grow. Read to lead. Smile to celebrate.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.

It's good to see a kid that young learning how to pitch. He's tough.

It's time to cut off visas for foreign baseball players and return our national pastime to Americans.

What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.