Two Navy SEALs versus one angry seven-month-old," he mused, "The odds could go either way.

My favorite color is you.

Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.

-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?

He wanted to wake up to her smile every day for the rest of his life, like some stupid coffee commercial on TV.

Sometimes it takes you awhile to get to it, but you always get there, and what you say is always worth waiting for.

I remain convinced that the most valuable use of time for a newly published author is to write a second book that's even better than the first, and a third that's better than the second, and on and on.