The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

I think death is a tremendous adventure- a gateway into a new life, in which you have further powers, deeper joys, and wonderful horizons.

Indeed, the opposite of joy is not sorrow. The opposite of joy is unbelief.

O God, take all our sorrows and use them to show us the nature of our joy.

I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films.

We are defined by how we use our power.

Walking by faith will cause all of us to recognize that as children of God we are just pilgrims and strangers down here on this earth.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

The world has changed a great deal from when I began 50 years ago. I was very fortunate. There were a lot of opportunities that perhaps don't exist today.

I’d said it before and meant it: Alive or undead, the love of my life was a badass.

There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.