For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders, ' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

May the Lord deem us from deep gloom to the light.

Love costs nothing except your state of being.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human, ' Miriam says.

Enough white lies can scorch the earth black.

I gravitate toward the law, I think, certainly more times than not, because it's our best mechanism for legislating human behavior, and morality, and ethics.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business.

A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.