"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court."

"I hope to be involved in a successful movie script."

"Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to."

"What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells."

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."

"It is a quiet truth that the canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear."

"I'm not constrained by being a genre writer. Any story I can imagine, I can cast as a fantasy novel and probably get it published."