I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.

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

In every moment, you make decisions based on your beliefs or inspiration which comes to you directly from the divine/universe.

Every day you make certain decisions and take specific actions that come about as a result of how you think, feel and the habits you tend to indulge

To the PROBLEMS of our life, we are the SOLUTIONS. To the QUESTIONS of our life we are the ANSWERS

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

Your actions are your only true belongings.

Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested!

The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.

the last steps of life are ever slow and difficult.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.