I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects - nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce, turn them a certain way and make people get into a romantic mood; and another way, into a bellicose mood. I'm most happy to be a writer.

Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope.

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.