Fiction makes your dreams come true, and, as a writer, fiction allows you to delve into the area of miracles.

God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning.

First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.

If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It is hard to find romance in the present because there's nothing left to the imagination.

The success of any country relies on the commitment of its leaders to serve others.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

I still treat every job as if I might never get hired again as far as the way I save money and live really modestly.

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

Everything needs a mirror to see what to change and what to love in itself, even a rock or a duck, everything!

I live on hairspray. The bigger the hair, the closer to God.

President George Washington used to wear a wig and make-up. I mean, c'mon, if he could do it, I can do it.