I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

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.

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

I had a dream that Connie Chung is doing a newscast about my death and they show a clip from Soap.

It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I loved it.

Design has to work. Art does not.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Those who walk with God always reach their destination.

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

Its a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.