You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

Train yourself to listen to that small voice that tells us what's important and what's not.

God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

If your mind isn't open, keep your mouth shut too.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

If high heels were so wonderful, men would still be wearing them.

Kinsey was never a lawyer. She's strictly blue collar.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.

Bad days will occur but always have good intentions. Being genuine is liberating to yourself and much appreciated by others.

People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.

Women are not totally nauseous after seeing me.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

It's funny with fiction - once you cut something, it hasn't happened anymore.

Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

I think more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.

To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.

I am the man, I suffered, I was there.