God has really blessed me. He could've allowed me to keep playing, but instead he saved my life.

You can make it your excuse, or you can make it your story.

You can touch lives or you can be a quitter.

The future is not what you will live tomorrow but the future is what you live today so that tomorrow you can be able to look at today and say I have lived.

You breathe too fast to be convincing, ' he goaded.'You don't breathe enough to judge me.

I'll tell you, Quentin Tarantino really writes the most amazing dialogue.

Grief makes you feel alone, but you're not. I know you don't believe in-in religion-the same way I do, but you can believe you're surrounded by people who love you, can't you?

Cats are always elegant.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

I followed all life's pleasures wherever they would lead, but someone I can treasure is all I really need.

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.