I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.

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

Every war carries within it the seeds of the next.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I could fall in love with Dallas Winston, " she said. "I hope I never see himagain, or I will.

The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so.

I don't think I was a good model. I think I was born to emote and act. I would walk down the ramp and smile and they used to say, 'Give us a blank look.' It was really difficult not to smile.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you.

Man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.