My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

Sometimes Heaven is just a new pair of glasses.

Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

...music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the breath. We're walking temples of noise, and when you add tender hearts to this mix, it somehow lets us meet in places we couldn't get to any other way.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.