This is the kind of thing that makes sense to them

You can get all A's and still flunk life.

The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.

In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

The right thing to do is to let the dust settle.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

You scared of that pip-squeak? Dude, you got a lot to learn. Freakin' Newbies.

My first postseason home run was a walk-off in the Division Series. That was just a special moment in my career.

Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.