Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.