Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

I will be fine

Empowerment is the intentional absence of negativity.

If I die tomorrow, I'll be alright because I believe that after we're gone, spirit carries on...

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

I'm not really often recognized - not really. Or if I am, nobody cares enough to come and tell me that they recognize me.

Etgar means "challenge." And my family name is Keret, which means "urban." So my name is "urban challenge." My joke is, it's a good description of a birth but a strange name for a human being.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them.