Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.

Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.

Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.

In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

I've loved all of my time here.

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

People who make no noise are dangerous.

To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought.

The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

I am funny. No one else thinks I am funny. But I am funny.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.