Success is never so interesting as struggle

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

You can fulfill what the Lord called you to do and for you to fulfill this mission, there must be no impediments

Go huge or why bother?

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's going to happen in each chapter and each scene.

I have great respect for Craig Lucas. I absolutely adore his sensibility.

Keep an eye on the weather, which is changing faster than predicted, and on the new diseases escaping or being made, even as we speak. It's a race between new tech and biosphere bankruptcy, I'd say.

The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

How many ya'll parents smoke weed? My momma still grows illegal weed in Alabama.