There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

I learned years ago that love could be temporary and still be love.

Imaginative writers often project their own monsters and meanings on basic facts.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going.

If the achievement of so much in life could not make one happy, then why bother living?

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?

God gave me eyes so that I might see you, and God gave you eyes, so that I might see myself.

Food that walked and talked, that was us. McPeople.

In America uniformed cops eat in coffee shops, diners and restaurants and I always feel safer having them around.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful.

Love reigns a very tyrant in my heart.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.