As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

Do you have hands? Excellent. That's a good start. Can you hold a pencil? Great. If you have a sketchbook, open it and start by making a line, a mark, wherever. Doodle.

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

If we live within the boundaries God has prescribed for us, we realize that our boundaries grow and there’s plenty of freedom…

You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

In truth, 2007 was the hardest year of my life. I lost my best friend. I lost my father.

It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.

American missionaries have free rein in Uganda. They can go anywhere they please - schools, hospitals, parliament.

If the sign on your heart says "WELCOME", the love will come pouring in from everywhere.

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.