Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

I'd love to do something with Kelly Clarkson because she's been a monumental influence on me. I love how she handles her celebrity. She's not in the tabloids a lot but everyone knows and respects her because she's got an amazing voice. That's something I aim towards.

Jordin Sparks

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

Rowan Atkinson

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

Albert Einstein

We are governed not by armies, but by ideas.

Mona Caird

I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.

Katy Perry

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

Ted Turner

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.

C. O. Jackson

It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing.

Tim O'Brien

It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray.

Roger von Oech

I didn't know anymore what love meant, or why we were not all better off without it.

Patricia A. McKillip