“Yes I am a firm believer in Christ, and yes there is cussing and other sinful things in my writing, simply because I am also a realist, and I want to express the most realistic characters possible.”

“Growing up, my best friends were my books, and my Rottweilers.”

“I am a writer. The proof of how I am feeling is always in my pen.”

“The voice sang on, “I am ready, I am ready, I am fine. I am fine, I am fine, I am fine.” I played it again. I was not fine.”

“I am breathless, hopeless, and consumed. I now know that I am between balloons.”

“I don't think anymore that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there. And in the end, this end, here is what I believe. The heart is a wild and fugitive creature. The heart is a dog who comes home.”

“I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.”