I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

Poverty, oppression, grief and depression will increase, if a country does not live according to the rules of God.

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers.

It's not where you start or where you finish. It is the distance between the two.

Lay me down, Let the only sound, Be the overflow, Pockets full of stones.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

Look after yourself and each other.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.