One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

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

Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.

We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.