Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A writer always writes.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.

Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections.

It's as if our girls don't understand that they can be recognized for other things--their goals, their brains. Not just their bodies.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

Design is a response to social change.

Resignation is a daily suicide.

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

When we listen for their feelings and needs, we no longer see people as monsters.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive!

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.