Faith alone is never enough. You must follow up with the right effective plan and strategic action.

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

I have to live my life. I have a family and I just think it's absurd to let other people influence the way you live.

No one can replace Richard Wright. He was my musical partner and my friend.

I look into my own black heart.

Yeah, my dream would be to work for 6 months and then have 6 months to play, just snowboarding, surfing, and going to cool places to listen and be alone and kinda chill out.

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

I think things like food, the food of the south is sort of the common tie that binds us all, Black and White, the sense memories. It's a very particular part of the country.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.