When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else.

I'm one of three brothers.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

The root of the kingdom is in the state. The root of the state is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its head.

Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

I think many times we charge the Lord for things we can do ourselves. If only we realized how well we have been equipped.

If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

The world is not something to understand. Instead, you just adapt to it.

I'm very collaborative with everybody on the set.