I write from the same place I parent, and since becoming a single parent, I have found it difficult, if not impossible, to write anything of length.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

From Maya Angelou I began to believe that I, too, someday, could be a writer, and I also learned how tortuous it can be to be in possession of a unique voice.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

I am very abnormal... But it wasnt very long ago that I wasnt so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.