Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.

I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.