I can't say I'm anything like a devoted animal rights activist, but I certainly oppose cruelty to animals.

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks.

I'd hasten to say that the prejudice in Dust City isn't completely analogous to racism in the real world.

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

If some readers take away the idea that animals deserve better treatment in general, then I certainly won't argue.

I always hope that the artwork will complement and enrich a story.

Since I tend to write chronologically, the middle is always the place where the process is most taxing.

Destiny isn't immutable. You can change your fate. But I'd say the only way to do it is with hard, intelligent work and long-term dedication to a goal.

In medieval Europe, childbirth was a leading cause of death. So widowed fathers with children were quite common, meaning stepmothers were equally common.

...friendship is something you do.

I hear preached in our charismatic churches, which basically borders on sowing and reaping, giving and receiving. I thought there must be a different format to that message

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye. He took a dog-doo snow cone and stuffed it in my other eye.

There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.

When your child is looking up at you and you are putting them to bed at night, and they are just lying there, you have to remind yourself that's what it's all about.