I think of my novels as entertainments.

We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.