I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

Jesus has entrusted His message of salvation to His followers. Faithfully share the message!

Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?

Above all else, above the mechanics, even, a doctor should be thoroughly grounded in morality.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.

If I spend all my time being upset about having lost a job, then the next however many auditions I have are going to be useless.

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

You can change the world, but if no one's listening, it doesn't matter.