Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.

Of all the dramatic media radio is the most visual.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

No one could ever argue with me about people in show business being kind of nice.

Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul.

I'm open to any kind of situation in a song as long as it touches my heart.

Life gets more complicated and projects get more complicated after that.

You can spend so much time wanting someone and they can have absolutely no idea.