“Make your positive voice stronger and louder than your inner critic and anyone else’s.”

The simple way to distract from fixing your own life is to fix someone else.

Half the battle is direction. The other half is dedication & self believe.

The struggle you suffer today will become your success story one day.

Think. Believe. Connect. Do.

Have no expectations is an expectation.

Good people, good memories & good surroundings are the medicine of life.

Have no expectations mean to have no pain.

Give yourself and everyone else some grace for being human.

Short term intensity cannot replace long term commitment.

The lack of support from your loved ones makes your healing journey so much harder.

God is perfecting our faith in every situation.

Stay focused on what is good now and don’t give in to negative thinking.

A positive mind takes intention, action, goals, self-love, & self-alignment.

It’s not information that promotes growth, it’s transformation.

Finding something to laugh about every day helps you live longer.

A new pain is an old pain wrapped in a new narrative.

I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.

I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

The film critics don’t know my artwork and the art world doesn’t know my films.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Some critics have commented that understanding the specific Brazilian political context of the novel is helpful for reading Quiet Creature. This may be true, but it’s not prerequisite for understanding it.

I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.