Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their readers.

I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me.

I never stopped believing in my ability or what I was doing. I want to pass that sense of faith and perseverance on to others.

Believe in your work, educate yourself about the business, surround yourself with good people, set goals and timetables and stay focused on them.

Don't date a woman without cable (no cable, no SportsCenter).

I honestly believe that all of my work have the type of impact that will allow me to create some unique opportunities.

Don't date a woman with satin sheets on her bed (she didn't put them there just for you).

My dates are nightmares! If she were awake, alive, not on parole and truly single that would start. Place, time and what we do matters little if I'm out with the right woman.

Women and men basically want the same things. Trust. Respect. Support. Love. Room to grow and a major physical attraction.

Don't get down on yourself when you get rejection letters.

Don't date a woman who doesn't take care of her place (she won't take care of you).

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

The easiest thing for our friends to discover in us, and the hardest thing for us to discover in ourselves, is that we are growing old.

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

Nicki Minaj has a better booty; but I have better shoes.

Your number was up the first time I met you.