Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.

Saying hello to something new means saying good-bye to something old and loved.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

People can't help the way they feel, only what they do about it. They can no longer not be attracted to someone other than their spouse than they can say they are not hungry or not thirsty or not frightened or embarrassed. It's when you act on that attraction when you know it would be bad for your marriage that is the problem. In a good marriage, the couple are each as committed to the marriage as they are to each other.

The Three Cs, I told myself. When you're not Comfortable with it, it's not a Compliment, it's Creepy.

Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.