Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

If you say, Well, OK, I don't believe in God. There's no evidence of God, then you're missing the stars in the sky and you're missing the sunrises and sunsets and you're missing the fact that bees pollinate all these crops and keep us alive and the way that everything seems to work together. Everything is sort of built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design.

I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.