You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

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.

In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.

To be wise, know yourself.

Approach everything with a careful tongue. - Elder God from The Thousand Years War

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

I think marriage is all about timing.

My favorite chip trick is to make everyone's chip stack disappear.

We going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan, we're going to eliminate job-killing regulations which are a disaster, we are going to defend religious liberty.

Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.

There is no one so great as the one who does not try to accomplish anything

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.