You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Novels ought to have hope; at least, American novels ought to have hope. French novels don't need to. We mostly win wars, they lose them. Of course, they did hide more Jews than many other countries, and this is a form of winning.

if you want to know how God feels about money, look at whom she gives it to.