Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

I have sporadic OCD cleaning moments around the house. But then I get lazy and I'm cured. It's a very inconsistent personality trait.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

Keeping an open mind is always important.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

Here's your opportunity, now you've got to make something of it.

Being a superhero is a lot of fun.

The more conflict and contrast you have with a character makes it more interesting.

As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.

I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.

What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]

Contentment gives peace and joy in our minds and hearts, which is the reward of living God's way.

Making love without noise is like playing a muted piano-fine for practice, but you cheat yourself out of hearing the glorious results.

All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

I don't usually stink. But I stunk today.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.