Life is short..Live to the fullest.

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

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

She cares about fall’s magnificence in the rainThe dipping raindrops' dance assigning thence Indicated rhyme that eases her refrainBefore they met - her paces commence.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Fashion is instant language.

Everything is relative. If you want to understand a problem you look at its cause. You don’t look at its manifestation.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.