Even the roughest character, underneath all that hurt, is someone who wants to love and be loved.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

He was bare chested and in good trim. I said that just looking at him I knew there would always be an England

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend.

I learn something new every day.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.