You’re the one sitting there with a boner. You’llterrify your charity guys, walking in with that thing pointingat them.

I may not believe that 'all things happen for a reason.' But I do believe that reason may come from all things that happen.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.

Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights.

We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.