Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.

Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

I want to resume the life of a shy person.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.