I'm a Christian, and those beliefs occasionally come out in the books.

Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.

How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

There is no devious and dangerous life. I've lived a charmed life, especially in the last thirty years since I've started publishing. I've won the lottery. And I keep winning it every year and I am so fortunate to do something I thoroughly enjoy and still enjoy after a bunch of books.

The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.