Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I don't think anyone's normal.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

Ere long this golden light shall pass and fadeExcept all cherish'd mem'ries ye have made.

Discover your level of consciousness. Now be silent and transcend and transform your consciousness.

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

If the waitress comes, order me a coffee and something that involves bacon.

What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.

Galleries are nice to me. I sign a lot of autographs.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.