"I believe in the power of words, and I believe in the power of stories."

"The act of writing is an act of faith."

"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself."

"The world is a cacophony of voices, and it's the writer's job to make sense of it."

"The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a new Dark Age, when knowledge will be replaced by dogma, and the light of reason extinguished."