This is the very thing that has driven people to suicide through the centuries. It is hopelessness made real, or to use Milton's famous phrase, it is "darkness visible," a description that the author William Styron used as a title for his own poignant memoir on depression.

Every once in a great while, the hand of God is easy to see, and for a brief moment, fairy tales and history are the same thing. This story is about one of those times.

Part of what makes the concept of miracles and God's intervention such a hot topic for so many people is that everyone wonders how a God who is presumably running the entire universe will not heal someone of cancer but will find someone else a parking space.

If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

Reflection makes men cowards.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Our rejection of the occupier at heart is resistance.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

A lot of people thought 'Funcrusher' was super dark and hopeless, and I don't think it was hopeless in any way.