"When I'm in writing mode I tend not to listen to music. I usually have a gestation period before I start writing. When I'm listening, it usually happens on the road. So, we'd been listening to a lot of music on tour the year before and all that stuff sank in."

“The little I know of it has not served to raise my opinion of what is vulgarly called the Monied Interest; I mean, that blood-sucker, that muckworm, that calls itself the friend of government.”

“The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.”

“In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide.”

“One of my pet theories is that readers have built-in BS detectors that enable them to recognize insincerity in writers. David [Halberstam] was sincerity to the core. He believed in what he wrote, and that conviction conveyed itself to readers.”

Source : "David Halberstam". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

“We fear circumstances so much because we fear God so little.”

“I'm not much of a revenge person, because I think when you start with revenge it cheapens what you've been through.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

“Football's not just about scoring goals - it's about winning.”

“What is good hair? It can be anything to anyone. Good hair is healthy hair, whatever you perceive that to be.”

Source : "5 Questions with Isaiah Mustafa, Apologizes for 'Good Hair' Comments". Interview with Abiola Abrams, www.essence.com. October 3, 2011.