The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

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.

Learning becomes the knowledge builder and we can define learning through the information it absorbs and the capability it builds.

Oh, Confucius, "real knowledge" is to know we will ever be able to measure the extent of our, or one's, ignorance.

Excercise is nothing more than a depressing reminder that one is not a god.

The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.

She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

Leadership is not achieved by an individual. Leadership is bestowed by the group.

We don't merely need the money from work to survive. We need the work itself to survive and live fully human lives more than money.