You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

The premise of 'Deadline' forced me to go against my own grain with a character determined to find all that is valuable in that time. I believe this is a story about redemption; how, even with the best intentions, it's sometimes found and sometimes not.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

If you were to look at each atom as a universe unto itself, think of the number of universes within each of us.

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not that way, we should make them be; or at least pretend. But after a certain point that just doesn't work.