I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

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

Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has become ‘Soul’ (Atma

Life vicariously through yourself.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

All writers are vampires.

I think the open software movement (and Linux in particular) is laudable.

People think that we bought a lot of things during Nawaz Sharif's time and that I am very close to him. I have never met Nawaz Sharif, one to one, in my life.

No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.