With a good editor you find yourself shaping as you talk and they will ask a couple of questions that open new things. Some are good at line editing too, but there's this other, less visible talent.

That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.

The problem is not in what the devil is doing, but in what we are doing about it

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

The sense of inferiority inherent in the act of imitation breeds resentment. The impulse of the imitators is to overcome the model they imitate.

I like to take a shot with things. I like to take risks. I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

Leaders have to search for the heart on a team, because the person who has it can bring out the best in everybody else.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

...I write to keep in contact with our ancestors and to spread truth to people.