No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either.

When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.