My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

She felt everything too deeply, it was like the world was too much for her.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too.

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it.

The portrait of my parents is a complicated one, but lovingly drawn.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.

Spread peace and love. Be the bearer of the light of love.

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world.

When life gives you lemons, throw them at the zombies.

I love to work. I'll work all the time, unless somebody stops me. I love it, love it, love it!

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.

Creation is a book proclaiming the Creator. It is a book of beauty that our intellect reads, but through the passageways of our five senses.