When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

Living is about clucking your tongue and enjoying the sound. ~Slater

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.