I tend to keep my ideas in my head. When I write something down in a notebook it's never centralized. There are too many notebooks floating around, but maybe that's a good thing.

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.

I think the rest of the world is not as cold and lonely a place as you think. At least I have to hope.

Respect is a mutual interest, your gains depend on your losses.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

I don't know if there's anything intrinsically funny about Tae Kwon Do.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Anxiety is not to be managed it is a sin that needs to be repented of

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

If I'm President of the United States, when I'm President of the United States, we will stand with Israel.