"Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst."

“What point is there to all the wealth and power that America may have if they can't look after its own?”

“Everybody learns from traveling. I think we all do.”

“Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.”

“It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.”

“His readiness to undergo persecutions for his beliefs, the high moral character of the men who believed in him and looked up to him as leader, and the greatness of his ultimate achievement - all argue his fundamental integrity. To suppose Muhammad an impostor raises more problems than it solves. Moreover, none of the great figures of history is so poorly appreciated in the West as Muhammad.”

Source : "Mohammad at Mecca". Book by William Montgomery Watt, p. 52, 1953.

“If you're a good fighter on the street, you don't have to tell anybody that you're good at fighting. Let someone else talk about how great you are at this or that or whatever is the case. And if no one finds out then no one finds out, that's fine too. But I think leading by example is always the strongest.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.”

Source : "Adventures on the High Seas". Interview with Demarian Williams, www.scholastic.com.

“There is an issue about the discrimination provisions because the Qur'an does say that women should have half the share of men. Again, in the seventh century perhaps that kind of made sense, but in the twenty-first it very often doesn't. But in the arbitration contract that won't arise. An inheritance dispute might arise after someone dies but the two sides have to come together consensually.”