Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

I will fight for my people, but will they do the same for me?

Humor works, and it's the best way to get attention without spending a lot of money.

It was an effort to include intelligent design and treat it as science, disparaging evolution along the way. That will not stand.

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Research is always a very necessary part of my process because all of my books to this point have been historical. Time spent in the library adds to one's wealth as a writer or artist.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

In our universal experience unintelligent material processes do not create life

If you love someone and they reject and neglect, you gotta move on, there's no point running in circles for someone when there's no reward.