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

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

I guess whoever built and buried that IED out there in the desert will never know how far that blast traveled. But all things ripple out, cause shrapnel.

We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.

BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS.

Editorials are editorials. They a supposed to have an opinion, even a very strong one.

I'm still waiting for the Lord to come hug me.

That's the thing about best friends. That's what they do. They keep you from spinning off the edge.

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen.

In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.