You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

You say, The sensed absence of God and the sensed presence amount to much the same thing, only in reverse.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.

People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then you make your work fit that cookie cutter. It's the other way around. One works by simple observation, looking into things. It's usually called insight and out of that comes your view - not that you have the view first and then squash everything to make it fit. I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.