community Quotes

Anything we can do in the near future that begins to stimulate the interest of people - seeing somebody down the street have an opportunity to go into space - buoys up the whole neighborhood.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.