Great stories move through fear.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

We have to have positive male role models.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.