Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

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

Remember this: You are the benchmark of your success - you define it. Don't let anyone else define it because if you do, you will fail. Appreciate those who support you and challenge those who don't

To happy convents, bosomed deep in vines, Where slumber abbots, purple as their wines.

Our mothers and grandmothers ... moving to music not yet written.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

I dont know whether its a fear of standing up, but I really love sitting at the table and blabbing. I learn so much that way, and I think I get free that way, free from inhibition and fears.

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

If we admit our depression openly and freely, those around us get from it an experience of freedom rather than the depression itself.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.