You are always someones favorite unfolding story

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.

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.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

A man who rightly governs self, may also govern family without the crippling cowardice, crutch of control.

.it's allright not to know all the answers..

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen

Life justified itself. It might be cruel, treacherous, ironic, but it was life, and pain was as much a part of it as joy.