You can’t pick up and leave everything behind because there is too much sadness in the world and not enough places to go.

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.

Appreciate the daily miracles of life.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Busy old fool, unruly Sophie

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals.

It's hard to hear that your good intentions are making things worse and tragic.

There have been miraculous stories in the history of big football events all around the globe, with host nations achieving fantastic results and even winning titles with the support of their fans.

The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

And suddenly it didn't seem to matter any more, nothing would matter if she could turn over, turn over and see the stars, turn over and look once and die.