Patience is a particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour what it might take you weeks to repair.

The problem is not that the churches are filled with empty pews, but that the pews are filled with empty people.

Some of the world's best educators are grandparents.

Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.

What is an angel? The two words that come closest to a true biblical answer are "manifestation" and "servant".

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

The easy path will seldom lead where you need to go.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan.

I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

My mom took me to see Goldfinger. My mom took me to see To Sir, With Love.

Eventually I'd love to be able to direct.

I'd like to say I'm R&B's savior.

By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.

An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.