What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?

If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.

Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Men may act as cruelly as dragons, but dragons will never act as men do.

The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

That's human nature - the ups and downs.

We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

The only failures are those who fail to try.

If you really feel hatred for someone, and kind of send it their way, then it’s out of your system and in their hands. I always think it’s therapeutic.

It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.

So when your mom walks in, turn down the volume and act like you're doing your homework.