I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.

Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their busted up shoes and haven't had any money for medication for two weeks.

All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.

I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

It's okay to be crazy as long as you keep writing and are happy.

Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.

Can I possibly be a good writer if I'm not healed form the story I'm telling? Will I be able to go deep enough if people find out the truth?

I'm really just playing when I write. I feel like I'm a kid again. I want my characters to do and say things like when I played with dolls!

I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

We’re not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there’d be a great many things in it we can’t comprehend.

In the scientific community, the debate is over, for all intents and purposes, about whether or not the planet is heating and who is causing it. In fact, it's more or less been over since 1995.

The export market is based, on high-paying jobs. I've seen statistics that show that people make over 88 a year generally benefit from this because these are export jobs.

It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go.

You don't insult American Muslims and religiously profile them the way that has been suggested by Ted Cruz.

One of the things I have come up against time and again in my career is the notion that because a book is easy to read it was somehow easy to write.

When God calls you to do something, He provides everything it takes to get it done.

when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.