I went back to being an amateur in the sense of somebody who loves what she is doing. If a professional loses the love of work routine sets in and that's the death of work and life.

To seek after beauty as an end is a wild goose chase a will-o'-the-wisp because it is to misunderstand the very nature of beauty which is the normal condition of a thing being as it should be.

God will never forsake you.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

The book [The Dissemblers] officially came out two weeks after my thirtieth birthday...am I still young?

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.