Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
Don't shame the young for releasing their pent-up fear.
I am deeply Catholic and always will be, but I'm no longer a member of the church. I left in 2003 because of the sex abuse scandal.
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk. . . . and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.
True boldness for Christ transcends all, it is indifference to the displeasure of either friends or foes. Boldness enables Christians to forsake all rather than Christ, and to prefer to offend all rather than to offend Him.
My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.