You don't realize your story is changing you until you look back.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Storm Sister--a friend who sticks close when storms hit her friend's life.

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.

The most exciting thing for all of us is movies and movie stars.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

In the end, the country is going the say, You know, whatever [Donald] Trump's weaknesses may be, he's a sincere guy trying very hard to get this country back on the right track.

You can't expect yourself to be already peaking like crazy in an exhibition tournament.

I was the editor of the school newspaper and in drama club and choir, so I was not a popular girl in the traditional sense, but I think I was known for being relatively scathing.