I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

You think we're a family,' Cody said, turning back. 'You think we're some jolly, situation-comedy family when we're in particles, torn apart, torn all over the place, and our mother was a witch.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

...it's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son.

I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.

The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.