If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

Some people are just afraid of what's different. It doesn't mean different is bad. It just means different is different.

Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.

When I was young, I was very shy and quiet, because we moved all the time. My dad was in the Navy, so we moved every two years.

And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

I'm amazed how the tiniest moments grow into books.

A dog pours a pitcher of love into the lonesome spots of your life.

Zachary smiles, and I wonder if he's felling different. Because standing out here waist deep in Gossimer Lake, next to my best friend, I'm feeling different-light and good and maybe even holy.

Truth is always right, observing it guarantees us victory in life.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

If people want me to be their role-model, it would be nice.

What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

The natural formation of the country is the soldier's best ally

Art is running away without ever leaving home.