Without a positive male role model in your life it is extremely difficult to become a man who benefits his family and benefits society.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.