Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Fiction has a unique role in conveying Truth. In fact, only fiction that is Truth with a capital T is worthwhile.

Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.

Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship with God through Christ.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.

I don't see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.

Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.

I strongly believe that the Legislature should not be interfering in private medical decisions.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Some people, like Leonard Cohen, write one album every 10 years, and labor over a song for five years at a time.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

Humans are not really very humane.

Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-Box.