Catholics don't scream about Jesus, they scream about the bishop.

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

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?'

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

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.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Most people like a little sex in their novels.