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

So many book sections in newspapers and magazines used to be lively and vibrant places. Now they are gone. You just don't see many reviews anymore. I can't control that, so I don't worry about it. I just try to do what I do and write books that people find every entertaining. I don't worry about the critics.

I remember Stephen King did a fundraiser one time with J.K. Rowling and he was very impressed with her. But we talk a lot about publishing, bookselling, and book writing. He's been around for ten years longer than me and was a bestseller right off the bat. And he's seen and done everything. It's rare to be with somebody who has been through all of that.

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

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.