People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

If what you are doing is important, you will encounter resistance. If what you are doing isn't important it will be easy.

What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.