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Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them.

I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'

I have many moments of self doubt. Everybody does.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting the characters' lives unfold and seeing where it takes them.

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

It's not about me, it's about my family. You don't answer questions for you, but for us. You learn to live beyond yourself.