The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

The novel does not seek to establish a privileged language but it insists upon the freedom to portray and analyze the struggle between the different contestants for such privileges.

To respect Louis Farrakhan, we must understand, is simply to agree with him... If dissent is now also to be thought of as a form of 'dissing,' then we have indeed succumbed to the thought police.

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.