Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

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

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes...

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.

So for, you know, for a good 20 years now I've been involved with veterans and soldiers and in support of them no matter what they're doing.

I am not an expert on the Clinton Foundation, so, you know, I don't want to pass judgment on it.

The sound that I play is delayed, it's modified, and it's modulated. It's an intelligent system; it's happening now.

I mean I hate to be conspiratorial, but I mean how do you move that many people from Central America across Mexico and then into the United States without there being a fairly coordinated effort?

Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.

Complacency makes one as guilty as those who destroy the Earth.