We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

I kept my whole life in suitcase, Never really stayed in one place, Maybe that's the way it should be, You know I live my life like a gypsy.

If you aren't happy for what you already have then what makes you think you will be happy with more.

When we overemphasise miracles we underplay kingdom principles.

No woman is envious of another's virtue who is conscious of her own.

I hear this song and I think, Man, this is ... great. This is the best I ever heard this. I forget I'm the one singing.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

But put two librarians' heads together, and mountains move.

If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.

I don’t know any redneck that’s not into fun. That’s their middle name: Red-Fun-Neck.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.