Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

You have more issues than National Geographic by Austin LeFleur in Hissy Fit

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders, ' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

For a writer, capturing that elusive Christmas morning magic can be deeply problematic.

I wasn't always overweight. I was a skinny little punk of a kid with severe asthma. When I got married at the age of 22, I wore a cut-down size eight wedding gown.

Faith is a kind of spiritual magnet that you polarize.

Sanity is to the mind, insanity is for the heart, Docility is to the mind, wildness is to the heart, Tamable is the mind, Untamable is the heart, Freedom is to the mind, cages are for the heart.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

The Catholics had been in the position of oppressors, and the Protestants of the oppressed

If you're bored, you don't know the real God.

The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.

I used to think that having lots of friends meant that you were happy. That's really not true. Having the right friends means that you're happy.

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

I invented the web just because I needed it really because it was so frustrating that it didn't exit.