Being the first to do anything takes guts.

Men do everything that men do, from waging war to reading books, for one purpose only: to get laid.

God’s various blessings are not always obvious.

The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor.

Many of the poets I most admire have a way of embodying their peculiar obsessions via landscape that can sometimes seem magical.

We walk into a bar, and you're aware of all the eyes on you. We walk into a bar, and I'm aware of all the eyes on you, too. For you, this translate into confidence. But me? All I can feel is doubt.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting.

Stories are like relics, part of an undiscovered preexisting world. The writer's job is to use the tools in his or her toolbox to get as much of each one out of the ground intact as possible.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.