I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

But, you see, it's not what you do that matters really. It's only you.""Me what?""Just you here. Or you in the city. Or you somewhere in the world. I don't know. Just that.

When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all.

We do not admire their president.We know why the White House is white.We do not find their children irresistible

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies.

I am a failure as a writer. The publishers won't publish me, the bookshops won't carry my books, the critics won't write about me. I am excluded from all anthologies, and completely ignored.

The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

People think that atheists have nothing to live for, but that's not true - it's that we have nothing to die for.

Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone's agenda. It should be a people's movement.

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.