Where I came from, no one was a writer.

I'm one of three brothers.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.

Getting to the end of a song is not the goal of singing.

Good enough never is

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

I know all I really wanna do is get money and take care of my family.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

The elevator to success is broken, take the stairs.

The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

Revenge, the attribute of gods! They stamped it with their great image on our natures.