I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.

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.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

No man can be happy without a friend nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting.

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

The Good Lord hasn't done this well: He placed limits on everything, except on stupidity.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.