Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

When perception will change then today's sadness could be tomorrow’s happiness.

My life was a blank paper, until you came to rhyme with words & make it a poetry book. ❤ ❤

My practices were not set up to be easy or enjoyed.

There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart, The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust. A spider will make a silver string nest in the darkest, warmest corner of it.

Don't say 'the White House wants.' Buildings can't want.

Pixar makes movies that make sense for Pixar, and Disney makes movies that make sense for Disney, and they've each emerged in their own unique way.

In fact, not knowing is a necessary condition of writing for me. I don't know how else to reach something unexpected. I have to be as in the dark as my characters.

Exercise is not a thing we do to fix a problem - it is a thing we must do anyway, a thing without which there will always be problems

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.