I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

You will never be as smart as your subconscious.

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

Humor - I see it as a survival skill.

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful novel.

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

No one likes to talk about the positive parts of getting older and aging into orphanhood, how with your parents you often bury a lot of things you were never able to confront or fix or let go of.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

In this beautiful world anything is Possible, but only when we Believe wholeheartedly and try!

When discontent sets in it's time to make some changes. In a world where so much is possible, yet so many people are unhappy, there has to be another way.

Promise people with the hope of not letting any fracture misalign you from fulfilling those promises. That gives you a recommendable brand.

People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

I've never been to a class reunion or anything because I'm always afraid of that one - there's going to be some 'Carrie'-like incident.

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.