I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.