Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

I want to keep meeting new people, enlarging my circle of friends. I have great friends now... really good people. But I'm always ready for what comes next.

My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.

In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell.

Normally, I name my characters after famous comedians.

I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

I deal with unhappy marriages a lot. I've never been married, I'm single.

I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.

I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful.

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

Modern medicine uses imaging 'windows' such as magnetic resonance imaging scanners to bring into view otherwise unseen vital information that skilled physicians can use for the benefit of their patients.

Buttercups and daisies Oh the pretty flowers Coming ere the spring time To tell of sunny hours. When the trees are leafless When the fields are bare Buttercups and daisies Spring up here and there.

Reflection is one of the most underused yet powerful tools for success.

The rules of wildlife are simple and clear, which is not the case for men.

Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.

Neurotics build castles in the air psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

If a man look sharply and attentively he shall see Fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

Therapy? I don't need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.

To create is to resist; to resist is to create.

To anyone out there who's hurting "it's not a sign of weakness to ask for help. It's a sign of strength.

The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

My family is awesome.

I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

I appreciate my international fans all over the world.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

'Extract' was kind of a grown up 'Office Space' in the sense of talking about the ennui of being a successful person in America if you don't have some real passion in your life for something to care about.

What counts is what you do with your money, not where it came from.

I like to get far away from myself when I'm acting.

I have a couple freeloader friends, but it's okay. I know they're gonna come in with their arms flying in the air empty-handed.

Your flow is as tangible and real as any locomotive and just as powerful.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

Family faces are magic mirrors looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.