We have North Shore, Hawaii and Lost all there, so they have softball tournaments between the casts. It's hilarious.

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

I want to stay in Hawaii a little while. I'm kind of liking it over there.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

I did seven indies because the independent market used to be a lot better before all the stars were doing independents. As a beginning actor, that's where you started.

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

I'm an outdoorsman kind of person, so I don't like the buzz of the crowd, crowd, crowd and all that so much. I mean I don't mind it, but I don't seek it out.

Remember Star Trek? They're on this huge ship and they've got all these people, right? But you only see them, maybe they go on some mission and one of them gets killed.

TV tends to try and fit everyone into a TV mold.

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

Don't be bashful

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I don't care if my books don't sell abroad; we have a large enough market in our country. I write for Indian readers.

Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

The single most important lesson I learned is that black people are the cause of black people's demise.

I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.

People say their weight is genetic. But it turns out that people who are overweight don't just have overweight kids. They also have overweight pets. That's not genetic.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.