“Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.”

“I wasn't a cynic; I was a banged-up realist.”

“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.”

“I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The evangelical community would rather not do something wrong and the price they're willing to pay for not doing something wrong is they're willing to fail to do something right; they're so afraid of making a mistake. Now the reason they're afraid of making a mistake is they're cowards and our community produces cowards.”

“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”

“The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.”