Sometimes people just want you to fail. Except your really good friends. I've always known who my best friends were.

I'm the guy, I'm kind of like the, uh, Everyman, so I think people just relate to that.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.

I think that money is the root of all evil. I've seen it happen.

At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting.

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

Never live with someone that won the Heisman.

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.

The media works in sound bites. They can make you look like a genius or stupid.

I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial.

People should realize that I shot a Coke commercial back in 1986. So, you know, I've been around a long time. I carry my Screen Actors Guild Card.

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

Scars and a thrill seeker. Gods help her...

If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wreck and smooth rolling prosperity.

Love in France is a comedy in England a tragedy in Italy an opera seria and in Germany a melodrama.

I know of nothing that is so degenerating and so dangerous as idleness, for the brain will seek out mischief.

When I'm writing a book, I draw from my immediate experience, and my books are therefore almost a snapshot of where I am at that moment in my life.

Rooms should be timeless.

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.