I wanted to be a meteorologist. I wanted to be a marine biologist

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

It’s not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

Why not show off if you've got something to show?

It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!

I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale

I've gotten to do a lot of weird stuff.

I prefer to remain mysterious and have people MAKE their own judgment calls about me than to always have to EXPLAIN who I am and what I’m about.

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.

Crows follow me wherever I go.

My dad liked how January went with Jones. My sisters' names are Jina and Jacey Jones.

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

Her conclusion: "You just have to follow your own heart" when it comes to medical decision-making.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

Your life on the Outside reflects your life on the Inside

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

Ideally, anything one writes should have a social conscience: if you can write a story that thrills, and with a good message, that's the perfect type of a story.

I don't blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to 'em? More power to 'em.