One of the beautiful and terrible things about America is you can go there and still be whatever you want, if you bust your ass and you have some luck.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

...if you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

I've always wondered what it would be like if the Messiah, or Christ Returned, were actually alive and living in our society; who would that person be, how we would identify them, how would they live and what would they believe in, how would society react to them? I decided to try and tell my idea of that story.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.