"Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old."

"As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think."

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

"If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

"Most of our lives are spent in little towns, little towns all throughout the country. That's where we live. And that's where the juices come from and that's where we made it, not made it in terms of success but made who we are."