Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

if you cannot ponder to wonder, you will always wonder to ponder

Add these affirmations:"Bright LifeParticles are energizing my body.""Every cell in my body vibrates with energy and health.

You can tell if people are following Jesus, because they are fedding the poor, sharing their wealth, and trying to get everyone medical insurance.

The truth is that after several decades of neoliberalism, the rich are becoming increasingly richer while the poor are both more numerous and increasingly poorer.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

It is possible for every human being to be blissful, if you are willing to pay a little attention to how this human mechanism functions.

Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

I was quaking in my boots.

The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool.