“This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.”

The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you’ve solved the mystery.

A library is a home filled with our stories.

There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you’d had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting.

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you.

I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.

But when the morning comes, I realize that there’s nothing to be done about what has already happened.

I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now.

You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea.

It’s the secret to happiness, you know. Only take what you need.

The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.

Things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.

There are two kinds of people in this world.

God didn’t miss any of us.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don’t get any patients.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.

You have to be able to tap your foot or else none of what you doing you are not gonna have any control of your symptom.

I don’t think you ever write a song with any intention except the song’s about such and such per say.

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

If any of my characters require me to blacken my beard I do it, otherwise I don’t.

To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.