...it isn't foolish or wicked to enjoy. Wickedness is hurting people on purpose. I love what you are and who you are and how you are. You give me great joy. And you make horrible coffee.

My purpose is to entertain myself first and other people secondly.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

A man with a credit card is in hock to his own image of himself.

I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?

Guys are accessories, until one proves he's a necessity

You're causing the world to spin again, Keirah, " Wharick teased about her druid gift with nature. "You out of control? Do you need something to settle you down? he asked.

Do you want your faith to grow? Then let the Bible begin to saturate your mind and soul.

There is so much debate about moderate and radical Islam but there is only one Islam.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

I actually have a young readers' series that I wanna do, kind of in the same lane as a Harry Potter or Narnia or Twilight. I want to write stuff like that.

Success is not a random act. It arises out of a predictable and powerful set of circumstances and opportunities.

America has not dictated to other nations. We have freed other nations from dictators.