There's a million white people better qualified than a black man to be president of America.

I realized that, instead of moving people closer to a salvation decision, an answer can push them further away. Rather than engaging their minds or urging them to consider an alternative perspective, an answer can give them ammunition for future attacks against the gospel.

Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.

Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

He got drunk last night, kicked Mama down the stairs. But I'm alright, so I don't care.

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.