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

Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.