I use a pseudonym, because my real name is very difficult to pronounce, to remember, and to spell. And many people who have been talking about me on television have yet to pronounce it correctly.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

I'd like to get back into journalism. I'm hoping someone will offer me a job as a commentator or one of those political analysts that you see on the news shows all the time.

I answered their questions truthfully and honestly, but I would prefer not to say more. I assume the information was routed back and that is why I was not called to testify.

How are you going to work with people who seem to have divorced themselves from reality?

My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.

I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

I absolutely believe in Heaven and Hell. They're just like what the Bible says they are.

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

Pentecostals believe they experience the power of the Holy Spirit at various times. I believe that also since I have experienced it first-hand. It's not something that can be easily explained.

We spend more time asking what would Jesus do instead of what did Jesus do.

The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed.

Everyone has that inner voice, the one that's a Negative Nancy. I'd say to ignore that voice and to be confident and follow your heart.

I wasn't the only orphan in Guatemala. There are many others, and it's not my grief alone, it's the grief of a whole people.