God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

When I knew I was going to be able to write full time, I wondered, "What's going to happen to the relationships within my family?" Are they going to change? Is it going to be the kind of deal where you say, "I can't take this! Get me out of here! I can't stand these screaming kids!" The way it turned out was, I was able to change the diapers okay, after I stuck the pin through my fingers a few times. I had a dawning realization that children are not particularly hard to deal with.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.