It’s just this sense that you got something to say.

It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactly what they think you can do.

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on.

It's been a long road back to health and fitness for me. I am just glad to have been given the opportunity to do what I love most.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Germany's amongst my top three places in the world I'd like to live.

Grit is the stubborn refusal to quit.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Going viral isn’t random, magic, or luck. It’s a science.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message I give you.

Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan, of course. The best kings always are.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

I haven't had a vacation in years. I'd really like to sneak off and just run around on a beach for a while.

When I read Toni Morrison and Sandra Cisneros as a freshman at Rutgers, it all clicked - that writing was all I wanted to do. It became my calling.

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.

There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!

And I want to rise up, throw my arms open for a vast embrace, address an ample, luminous discourse to the invisible crowds. I would start like this: "O rainbow-colored gods. . .

This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.