Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.

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

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

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

Imagine, a Being with a mind as great as God's, with feet like trees and a voice like rushing wind, telling you that you are His cherished creation.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

It occurs to me it is not so much the aim of the devil to lure me with evil as it is to preoccupy me with the meaningless.