Writing is daydreaming with ink.

I am not a thing. I am not your possession. I am a human being."- CBI Agent Sam Rose

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

When I am about to embark on a difficult journey, I comfort myself by reading the accounts of the great nineteenth-century travellers, men like Stanley, Burton, Speke, Burckhardt and Barth.

The problem isn't a shortage of opportunities

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing.

We are all here to be a service to those who can't be a service to themselves. We can give people hope and more reasons for being human.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.

Spices are very hot, very hip. I love spices. I've always loved the Mediterranean flavors.