What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.