I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Supplication comes from a place of intrinsic desperation resulting from a broken and contrite heart.

I wouldn't touch Chimbonda with a barn door

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

You are demoted from First Tiger to bulk rate.

When people don't like the way a play ends, they're likely to blame the play.

In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.

Sometimes a slight pace change is all you need to snap out of a mental or pyhsical funk.

Closeness to power heightens the dignity of all men.