When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

I'm so horny the crack of dawn isn't safe.

Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.

As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'