When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book. ' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that. . . we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
Nowadays you can't be loud enough!
It is possible to wake up very quickly, to become enlightened, or you can do it gradually.
When we realize that Jesus is the one who takes the initiative and invites us to follow him, everything changes-on multiple levels.