From 1971 to 1993 my family lived in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Nigeria, as well as Uganda itself.

Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.

An important book for our times, in which one woman's determination and refusal to consent sets an example of courage and honesty.

The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.

Today's feminism infantilizes women. If feminism is not about freedom, then what the heck is it for? It just becomes a grievance lobby of victimhood games.

Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.

We live in a time like dreaming.... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.

At the end of the day I separate things; my life is my life and my work is my work.

Come on, Chris. It'll be just you, me, and the great, wide open over here.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.