Romance is the literature of hope.

I want you to move in with me, man.""Nah. I appreciate it, but I need to get a place of my own. I'm a grownup.

Bravery usually looked stupid from the outside.

Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?

If this was love, love had been overrated.

Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.

I think if you have the compulsion to write, you're not going to feel whole until you start putting words on paper.

A sure friend is known in unsure circumstances.

Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.