I'm nothing if not honest.

By telling my own story, I hope to help remove the stigma. It never should be something to hide.

It must be remembered that the Bush White House has a separate talent for character assassination that must not be confused with a talent for governance.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.

Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.

It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to run the government.

Wake up and live. It's a fast world out there.

In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was say we could - and we did.

You don't have to act as if you care; you just have to care enough to act.

I really think that living is the process of going from complete certainty to complete ignorance.

Deandre gazed at her like she was the stars, and he was a mere astronomer, searching her face for the constellations, admiring the beauty that was there

Pursue money while you're alive, so that poverty will not pursue you when you're old.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

I hold one thing dearer than all else: my commitment to my son.

Unrivalled not only in its class, but in a class by itself.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.