You're the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none, " he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

Keep trying, especially at first. It can be very discouraging if your submissions keep being rejected by a publisher, but if your work is what people want to read, you should get there eventually!

It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well.

When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.

The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable.

The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.