“And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.”

As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won’t last.

She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

You have to transmit to them what its like being in the theater.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater.

The biggest problem we have as human beings is that we confuse our beliefs with reality.

I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I’m glad of.

Through biblical community in their local church, through honesty and transparency, sharing what it is that troubles them, being accountable.

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures.

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.

Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer.