The clipping said forgiveness meant that God is for giving, and that we are here for giving too, and that to withold love or blessings is to be completely delusional.

I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae.

I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?

If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.

I don't see myself as a deep philosopher. The things I write about tend to be what we all have to face, or consider, or experience, that I talk about with my friends and brothers. It's universal stuff, told in my own voice, my own details and truth, which is all I have to offer.

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

Expectations are resentments under construction.