She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.

My dogs have been the reason I have woken up every single day of my life with a smile on my face.

Dogs, for a reason that can only be described as divine, have the ability to forgive, let go of the past, and live each day joyously. It’s something the rest of us strive for.

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring.

Thank God for his loving kindness and tender mercies.

Whenever your focus is on doing what you want and making yourself feel good, you can be confident that the Spirit of God is not the one leading the way.

Books have a life. They breathe. When you write a book, it grows and changes. You learn from your characters after you create them. They come from you and you become them.

Will you please shut the hell up!?

Well, I was a drama kid.

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.

I'm the dad, the cleanup guy. I deal with the bigger messes. But I also provide more adventures and excitement. It works out.

Some people have a negative attitude, and that's their disability.

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.