People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

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.

An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Polanski was very precise. I think he still is.

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be.

You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

It doesn't matter who scores. If you have an opportunity to score, you score.

Order always weighs on the individual. Disorder makes him wish for the police or for death. These are two extreme circumstances in which human nature is not at ease.

Because true love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.