“I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me”

“I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model.”

“It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.”

“Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their busted up shoes and haven't had any money for medication for two weeks.”

“I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.”

“All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.”

“When I write I like to give equal justice to lyrics, too. I want the song to have meaning for me so I can make it have meaning for the audience.”

“The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate. Let Big Brother do the singing and dancing for...”

“Most of the people in the audience were white and old. They had the gaunt look of people who have seen all the important movies and can now only look forward to reruns.”

“People are like songs to me. About 60 seconds in, I'll know whether or not to add them to my 'favorites.”

“And then this happened. And then this other thing happened. Oh, and I almost forgot to tell you about the time this happened. I should've had this book over for a cup of coffee and a chat.”

“Gods grace invites you to be part of something that is far greater than your boldest and most expansive dream. His grace cuts a hole in your self-built prison and invites you to step into something...”

“The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you cant, youre dead”

“When I am grown up I shall carry a notebooka fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.”

“Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. Its the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.”