When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama.

A second can feel like forever if what follows is heartbreak.

The ability to keep your mouth shut is usually a sign of intelligence

All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

If you're lost, you might need to swim against the tide.

What we expect rarely occurs; what we don't expect is what happens.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

It has been my experience that rewarding and heartbreaking often go hand in hand.

I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.

I'll be ready. I'm not sure for what exactly. But maybe that's what being ready really means.

Enjoy every day and make each day great

A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.

Being different isn't a sin, but intolerance is.

I must be doing something right. I was raised to stand up to the bully in the schoolyard, and you don't lose that.

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

We've had great conversations with the United Kingdom and meetings, Israel, Mexico, Japan, China and Canada, really, really productive conversations.

I have never believed you make your case stronger by bad-mouthing your opposition.

I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.