Set your imagination free and do your best to keep up with it.

When you hurt one of your characters and then type faster to finish a scene while saying, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!

Whether morality is moral is an open question.

Vocally, I have learned to find my strength, and my voice has developed a lot since 'Be Here.' I learned to sing with all of my body.

I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.

I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

No. What would I look like fighting for equality with the white man? I don't want to go down that low. I want the true democracy that'll raise me and that white man up raise America up.

Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.