When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

I just started trying to figure out how to write [something] which was unlike anything anybody had ever seen, and once I felt like I had figured that out I tried to figure out what kind of book I could write that would be unlike anything anybody had ever seen. When I started writing A Million Little Pieces I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

It's the third book of the Bible, called The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.My idea of what the Messiah would be like if he were walking the streets of New York today. What would he believe? What would he preach? How would he live? With who?

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.