Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.

I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

I have never been a child prodigy. When I think back to my childhood, I can not discern any sign of future success. My only real talent couldn't be found in any curriculum: whistling.

I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

He stands not alone. You would die before your stroke fell.

Cheerless poverty has no harder trial than this, that it makes men the subject of ridicule. [Lat., Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit.]

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.

Love reasons without reason.