Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

I laugh a lot and laugh loudly!

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you need to know how think the walls have to be.

I enjoy bringing humanity to complex characters.

Seek the truth. Tell the truth. Live in truth.

Falling in love is easy, but somebody tell me how to stay there.

DNA has memory!

My mission in life is to be kind, compassionate, caring, sharing and loving in order to feel the deepest joy of life.

To succeed means you to sail across some difficult courses.

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Like the crow among mankind are the Zanj [African Blacks] for they are the worst of men and the most vicious of creatures in character and temperament.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

What I'm continuing to do is cutting out the equation that wastes the most amount of time - and that is working within the system.

As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.

BC is not going to replace the hierarchy, and BC is not going to lead some major reform in the Catholic Church - that's got to come out of the whole Catholic community.