Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

And one of my absolute favorite quotes of all-time, one that I've adopted as one of my greatest life mottos: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.