It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.

A good title holds magic, some cognitive dissonance, a little grit between the teeth, but above all it is the jumping-off place into wonder.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.