God's Word instructs us, teaches us, guides us, encourages us, convicts us, and helps conform us to the image of Christ.
I've forgotten more about national security than George W. Bush will ever learn.
We're going to take out seven countries in 5 years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.
Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.
It doesn't take any more energy to create a big dream than it does to create a little one.
Well, I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president.
Imagine a world in which we saw beyond the lines that divide us, and celebrated our differences, instead of hiding from them. Imagine a world in which we finally recognized that, fundamentally, we are all the same. And imagine if we allowed that new understanding to build relations between people and between nations.
Sometimes I think some of my fellow novelists who have not worked in television and film are very naive about this process. They get an offer and there's the dump truck full of money and they sign it, they cash the check and then they're not involved in the series. They may get invited to the premiere and they come out of the premiere looking like all of their children had just been gassed, with a stunned look on their face because everything has been changed.
. . . Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?" "I hope there's gray. . . Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.
People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
I was given the ability to create stories and characters. That's my part of the long chain of writers, publishers, agents, booksellers, librarians, and a host of others who eventually deliver literature to the world. I want to do for others what Eudora Welty did for me.