When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Anytime you're afraid to try something new...just remember, amateurs built the ark, professionals built the titanic.

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

You cannot expect a man to love you, but not because of your body or physical construction. It is like giving a man the option between choosing you and a monkey.

Your attitude is like the aroma of your heart. If your attitude stinks, it means your heart’s not right.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

Start out by celebrating the best in the situation because it allows us to fall in love with it, which connects us to our passion and emancipates the energy.

I lived in New Mexico until I was seventeen, and honestly I've been homesick ever since I left.

Marilyn Monroe was no fun to work with. She would report to work around 5:00 in the evening. You've been in make-up since 8:30 in the morning waiting for her.

I boldly entered the arena of business and exercised the rights I already possessed.