My faith kind of keeps me in touch with the idea that I'm not in control of things.

There are people that are vegetarians that love bacon.

I do have some Catholic stuff that is done from the perspective of an ignorant Catholic. But other than that, topic-wise, there's nothing really filthy.

Whenever you go out to eat you gotta get the appetizer. 'Cause the appetizer's just an excuse for an extra meal. You're always like "Lets see, I will start with the 80 buffalo wings...and do you have a low-cal blue cheese? 'Cause I don't wanna fill up too much."

Jesus if you could cure our son's blindness that'd be great... And we'd love some shelves over there.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

Whatever a writer gets paid for his book, it's never enough. I think that's true. It's hard work. But in the end, you wrote a book. It's something real and tangible that sits on a shelf forever.