Stand in your own truth and you will command respect.

I'm not a Jesus freak, I'm not a satan worshipper. I'm a contradiction, a juxtaposition.

I don't wanna be a role model. I'd like to be an inspiration.

I don't think there's anywhere to draw the line sexually.

I strike terror among men, I can't be bothered by what they think.

as a childthere was eitherbooksorpain.i chose books.-how i became a writer

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief.

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.

The way to truly help someone is for me to not get immersed in their suffering.

Some people were offended by a show about cougars.

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.

I wrote a piece in the New York Times back in the Nineties saying that racial discrimination ought to be a criminal offense, not just a civil one. I'm all for the criminalization of discrimination.

I want my fluff-fluff! (Bob) Fluff-fluff… (Zarek looked panicked.) (Zarek)

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.