You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.