I will write my way into another life.

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.

Just because it's common doesn't make it less powerful.

Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.

Her bluebird of happiness is teal.

What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities.

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.

Even at its most perceptive, sociology deals in abstractions.

I've always thought of absurdism as a French fad I'd like to belong to.

I claim you, Rowan Whitethorn. I don't care what you say and how much you protest. I claim you as my friend.

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.