This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time. That's better. That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

If you want to be a good writer, make sure you read. I'm amazed by how many people don't bother to do that.

Got an hour or two? That's all it takes for one of my books.