Get to know your characters as well as you can let there be something at stake, and then let the chips fall where they may.

There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.

Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'