I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

We have to have positive male role models.

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it.