The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.

One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.

Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

judge not that ye be not judged

I think guns are just a symbolic substitute for male genitalia, and I’m okay in that respect.” “Fine. If they get in the house, you can whack them with your genitals.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

Could there ever be a wise man without the wisdom or life or without the death of illusion?

It's usually our opposites who complement us best, because they're the only ones who can balance us out.

Heaven for climate hell for company.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.

All of management's efforts for Kaizen boil down to two words: customer satisfaction.

If you feel tempted to use a picture of two hands shaking in front of a globe, put the pencil down, step away from the desk, and think about taking a vacation or investigating aromatherapy.

I swim when I am injured. What the best guys do is so hard. Michael Phelps is the best.