It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

When you’ve found the right one - when you see him, when you’re with him - you’ll feel like you’re coming home.

…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part is I saved Shiloh and opened my eyes some. Now that ain’t bad for eleven.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.