I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.

I always begin my stories as experiments - on large yellow tablets - a mixture of writing and sketching.

The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.

If you walk in the light, all the darkness around you shall disappear.

... In our family, if you said the words 'I feel, ' they better be followed with 'hungry' or 'cold'. Because we didn't get personal, that's just how it was.

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.

To succeed you have to be innovative.