Sighing, she shut the book with a snap. “All right. You need to vent, so I’ll listen to you vent. But do it quickly, because Rydstorm was about to plunder Sabine with his thick, hard—

He was in my nose, my mouth, on my skin, inside my cells, deep in the marrow of my bones. Just then, he was everything to me.

Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

A good novel can be a doorstop to despair.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

I love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking without anyone changing it.

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.

It is a simple fact that you can't steal second base if your foot is firmly planted on first.

You really don't want a job. What you want is access to those things you'd like to have.

The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.

My kids, they're my energy, my soul, and my nicest friend.

During my boxing career, you did not see the real Muhammad Ali. You just saw a little boxing and a little showmanship. It was after I retired from boxing that my true work began.