That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.

Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.

I'm human, you're human, let me greet your humanness. Let's be people together for a while.

I didn't need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity; I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.