What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

We are nothing but a few atoms arranged in an intricate organized way.

Be a master of your dreams, not the slave of your sorrows.

The bible and the church have been the greatest stumbling block in the way of women's emancipation.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Shit happens. You can either stand their and complain about the smell or you can wipe your shoe and keep walking.

Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.

What we do to each other are the worst things that we do.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

Having the reality of God's presence is not dependent on our being in a particular circumstance or place, but is only dependent on our determination to keep the Lord before us continually.

In any relationship there are certain doors that should never be opened. The bathroom door, for example.