You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.

I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.

Why is it that adults are always telling kids to go watch television as though we have nothing better to do?

I suppose you can never tell right off who might have a piece of Prince Charming deep down inside.

She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment.

Ignorance is one of the best defense available. Distraction is a remedy.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

I live in the USSR, work actively and count naturally on the worker and peasant spectator. If I am not comprehensible to them I should be deported.

All the things that live within you find their place, in character and story, once you tap into that other space that is the creative writing space.

One is that that's the way we started and we thought there would be more value and less confusion if the business model was just based on delivering news that's of value to Web sites.

Friendship is the grand fundamental principle of Mormonism

We don't need to justify love; it is there or not there. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them.

Writing a poem is discovering.

He who is penitent is almost innocent.