The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

The devil knows more from experience than from being the devil

You know how they say, "Find your voice"? That's your voice, in your pajamas. And it doesn't mean that you're going to publish it or print it or people are going to see you in your pajamas. It just means you are going to construct the foundation in your pajamas, in that voice.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.