When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.

He would never admit it, but he did have a heart of gold under all that crud.Solid, hard, impenetrable gold, but still gold, nonetheless.

Let the breath lead the way.

If I met me, I would say a quick hello and then think that I was a really nice girl.

A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

Sci-fi fans are eccentric.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!