happiness aint got no Ph.D. or no certain amount of zeroes behind it!

People like to run their mouths.

I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can't stand.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Parents can ruin children, and sometimes that's a learned behavior. Sometimes you can't blame your parents for it, sometimes you can. I think to me, that's what the whole paradox is, is people that have children that don't even know how to raise them.

I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.

Write from your heart, and God will take care of the rest.