Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

He pulled himself out of hard times, dealt with the scars from it, pushed himself to make a mark. A little bit of the wild side there, always. I told myself, oh no, I won't get tangled up with this one. And I said it again, even when I was tangled up.

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.

Phillip look into Ray's eyes. He saw compassion and hope. And he saw himself mirrored back, bleeding in a dirty gutter on a street where life was worth less than a dime bag. Sick, tired, petrified, Phillip dropped his head into his hands. "What's the point?" "You're the point, son." Ray ran his hand over Phillip's hair. "You're the point.

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.

He had realised that most vital of humanities. he had touched lives. And he had raised three boys that no one had wanted into men.