I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

Dare, dream, dance, smile, and sing loudly! And have faith that love is an unstoppable force!

My favorite color is you.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

This wasn't Weirdville, this was fricking Wonderland. Alice here was all grow up, but she was still chowing down on too much of that psychedelic mushroom.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

Life. Unfair and painful at times. But always moving forward, always shifting,changing, with times relentless passage smoothing down jagged parts until it no longer hurts quite so much to breathe.

Forget about writing to Penthouse. This one was going to be a story for their grandkids.

What did the soup say to the tea plate? "You're too shallow for me. I like deep dish to dip right into!" I still keep my British humour in good taste. No room for egos or rumours.

if the count of monte cristo could escape the chateau d'if, william smithback could escape from river oaks

Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower.

I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.

There’s a time to be silent - to build up a reason to sing again.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn't realize that four years ago. I do now.

I don't really mind criticism in music or in shows and stuff like that at all. I mean, it doesn't really worry me even if it's like out of place. At least it's relevant.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.