I've put everything I had and I've given my readers 120 percent, and that's the truth.

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely.

One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.

Easter is never deserved.

Phillipians 4:13 for Pete's sake!

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.

Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.

Not all prisons have bars

There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.