Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

All plot comes from the character's trying to get something, to achieve something, wanting, desiring, longing.

The ironic humor comes from the distance between what we understand about ourselves and what is truly going on in ourselves.

We are the yearning creatures of this planet.

Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.

The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.

Everything in life has its price, and often the heaviest prices we pay are not in terms of money.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Embrace in one act the two truths-thine own sin, and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.

Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

We break off obsession by laughing at ourselves, by learning to be funny, by just seeing the joy in life and by having a terrific love for this world.

He didn't care whose league Jordan was in. All that mattered was that she was his.

People want more real artistes. They want girls who can actually sing and play an instrument and write their own songs - that's not fake and manufactured anymore".

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

Sometimes the gifts of God aren't wrapped as we expect.