I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I'm one of three brothers.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

Forgiveness.... is moving one step closer to a united you.

Even though every identity marker I have can be taken from me, the grace and peace of the Trinity overflows into the life of the believer.

Hope fuels your inspirations while doubts assault your aspirations!

I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

Nothing short of a federal investigation can begin to disclose the abuses which have woven a fine web of mutually implicating relationships between businessmen and government officials.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.