Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?

Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

Everyone deserves to be the hero of a novel.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.