What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Anytime a child is born, the old people look in his face and ask him if he's the One.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.