It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

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.

If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.

Life may suck but death is worse.

Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning.

When it's a pop song, I don't really want to do pop songs, but they exist and sort of come out by accident.

This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.