To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Faith of Cranes is a love song to the beauty and worth of the lives we are able to lead in the world just as it is, troubled though it be... The writing is honest, intensely lived, and overflowing with heart: broken, mended, and whole.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.