I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

The thing about loving someone is that you have to love them the way they need to be loved and not the way you want to love them.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Your man wants to know that there's nothing you wouldn't do for him - if that's your committed relationship.

I've never been a model, I was an actress for like a minute, but I've always been a writer. That's where I'm going to stay.

Truth and honesty is my thing.

Everyone has to grow up and that's what we're all doing; we're just doing it in different ways.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

Love is a thing you never can share.

Looking at somebody looking good is so... boring.

When I was a kid going into the movies, you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

In the never-ending battle between order and chaos, clutter sides with chaos every time. Anything that you possess that does not add to your life or your happiness eventually becomes a burden.

Twi-moms! I love them, the little cougars!

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.