The better we are at accepting the limits of our world, the more easily we can embrace what we have.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Being with a small publisher has been huge. They bat for me for everything.

I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].

A story is built on characters and reasons.

I'm never going to write a whole paragraph describing what a living room looks like.

I used to do jacket design, and I'm very conscious of covers, and probably meddle more than other authors would.

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.

Don’t confuse “strict confidentiality” with “keeping employees in the dark.” Private is useful. Secretive is deceptive.

What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

Great wits jump

If you are serious about becoming like Christ, He is going to put you in circumstances where your only true choice is to become like Him.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

I tend to prefer traveling in the Third World countries. Like Ethiopia. Or Eritrea.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

Boy what a hotel that was, why they stole my towel.

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.