I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.

Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.

I don't worry about being in a hurry anymore, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

You can't very well live in a castle while your kin is on the poor side of town and barely have enough food. Some want you to get to the top and rely on you making it for them, too.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

If you stick around long enough, people start referring to you as a survivor. Suddenly I found myself on the receiving end of several prestigious awards.

I worshipped Berry Gordy for the creative dreams he had made come true.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

Detroit is full of talent.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

Long have I dwelt forgotten hereIn pining woe and dull despair

Man is most free when he is most guided.

To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?

I think one of my biggest influences is Bette Davis. I've seen almost every one of her films, and she's been very inspiring to me.

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?

I guess I should be more ambitious about practicing, but when I'm out on the road, that's about all I do.

When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.