The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.

I feel, as a matter nearly of faith, that if you have known a certain amount of suffering and have emerged out of it into the light, you are obliged to share that light with as many of the still-beleaguered as possible.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.

A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who are too sane. Depression is itself destructive, and it breeds destructive impulses: I am easily disappointed in people who don't get it.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.