It seems to me that most people are interested in reading about characters who are richer than they are.

I've never really had any trouble coming up with ideas; they just grow, like weeds. The weeding is the hard part.

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

I'm being uprooted, " Dino said. "You're being transplanted, " Viv replied, "and to a better home.

Even a God finds it hard to love and be wise at the same time.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal

We should see big dreams because it will encourage us to achieve

When you become too predictable you lose your brand's luster.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many people - for them, life starts with a good job.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

I'm 27 and guys are pitching into their 40s now. For unfortunate reasons, I haven't been healthy since 2005. But I feel that I have a lot of great years ahead of me.

I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it.

A resolution to exercise or eat more nutritious foods is a step taking you back to the well-being from which you originated.