I had never heard of 'young adult novels,' which I guess are about teenage gangs and the new boy in town or something.

There must be times when people look in the mirror and they realize they're 60.

I think I'm a terrible researcher. I find it very boring and frustrating, but the things you can find are better than what I could imagine. And when you find them, it's wonderful, and they don't feel artificial.

I think, like, fiction has a place to understand those things that are hardest to understand that non-fiction can't ever get at.

I meditate and pray multiple times a week to guide myself with divine clarity.

There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned.

I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.