I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

A story is built on characters and reasons.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy.

Show some mercy to your 'time', don't always waste it.

We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power.

When you got nothin' / You got nothin' to lose.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Marriage is an excercise in learning our flaws everyday