Everything I know and I am and I have seen felt done past present past now then before now seen felt done hurt felt focus into a something beyond words beyond beyond beyond and it speaks now and it says. Stay. Fight. Live. Take it.

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

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

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.