Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.

For me, all writing -- storytelling and style -- gets back to the Bible, Twain and Hemingway, and not in that order.

Storytelling? God started that. Discovery. Lust. Murder. Revenge. Power. Sin. Redemption. Forgiveness. Miracles. We simply retell the stories in the language of our generation.

Writing a novel is like traveling the universe on foot.

Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice

God has called us to something vastly bigger than our happiness or that of our children.

Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

Is life not more important than anything in this world?

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict.

New iPod. It looks like an iPhone but it can't make phone calls. So its really just an iPhone.

Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people. . . . For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.

Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant and rank.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?