Success is not the absence of failure it's the persistence through failure.

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

I don't believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There's a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.

On general principle, I boycott shows that don't employ actors.

Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Karaoke is the great equalizer.

You can only really learn from failure ... To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.

Pop culture is great, but it can be bad, at times.

I don't want to be pandered to, so I try not to pander.

Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together.

Though they won't say, it has been estimated that Cargill and ADM together probably buy somewhere near a third of all the corn grown in America.

Those who consider themselves good teachers probably aren't.

My first crime novel, "Wild Horses," sold at auction, and that changed my life at an ideal time.

All too much of the man-made is ugly, inefficient, depressing chaos.

Every moment is precious. And precarious.

Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.

I think that the most important thing to me is fans. Without the viewers, without the fans, we have nothing. So I think the fans are awfully important.

I just live one day at a time. That's my new theory in life.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.