The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.
No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.
I have to avoid things like 'World of Warcraft' or 'Minecraft', otherwise I'd never get any work done.
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about.
I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you go to school?'
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.
I'm bringing back the skinny tie but wearing it tied around my balls.
Suburbia is the insidious cartoon of the country house in a cartoon of the country.
The innocent mansion of a panther's heart!
People have said I'm the candidate of anger. Well, we have a right to be angry. We lost 3 million jobs. We lost our place as the moral leader of the world.