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.

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.

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.

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.

My diet is usually pretty consistent whether I'm training for a specific fight or not. I don't like to mess too much with it.

A talking dog is not the answer. That's not a way to convince people not to smoke pot. If animals started talking to me, I would up my pot consumption just to make that happen.

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

I don't do a lot of collaborations that I don't believe in. Actually, I don't do any collaborations that I don't believe in.

He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends.

There are things that have excited me to no end, and it's the sharing of knowledge that has come about on the network, and I see at an increasing pace this ability to share what we know.