When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.

I'd never written a book or a story that required meeting people, and that's not necessarily my best skill, even in English. I prefer to do my research in books.

I think that "ambition" is a weird and often negatively used word.

Sometimes you must do crazy things to discover the life beyond your life, to enter the unknown zone beyond your known zone!

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.