I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." - Aunt Frances

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

The weak are cruel. The strong have no need to be.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

Only mountains can feel the frozen warmth of the sun through snow's gentle caress on their peaks

Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.

Today would have been the birthday of Osama bin Laden. It makes me remember when Seal Team 6 threw him a surprise party.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.

I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.

Getting that first draft out is a horribly hard grind, but that (perversely) is where the joy of it lies.

Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.