I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

I collect things that just look retarded.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

Rafe tugged her closer before she could trip over a gravestone. "Damn it, woman. Devil take your wagon! You fail to grasp the severity of this situation.

Christianity is a love relationship between a child of God and his Maker through the Son Jesus Christ and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Manhattan... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.