You can treat faith as part of people's it's lives.

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling.

When it comes to fighting for freedom, those who are willing to fight should not be limited by our bigotry. Only rewarded with our gratitude.

Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

There's something very special about knowing what you want to do and knowing the story you want to tell, but finding it together.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

Whatever you do, whether you're doing a television drama or a romantic comedy, you want to be relevant, to some degree.

I think I'm an overly emotional person. I feel a lot, but I don't believe that's unique to me or that's how I am able to do the things I do.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

The universe is non-simultaneously apprehended

Forget about life, forget about worrying about right and wrong. Plunge into the unknown and the endless and find your place there!

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man but must be taught to protect herself.

I heard a white writer say, 'Oh, I'd never put black people in my writing, I'm afraid I would offend someone by doing it wrong.' I can't bear that!

Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

I'm selling evolution. You grow or you die.

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

If you tell a friend a secret, she will keep the secret by telling only one other person.

So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.