Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

Meaningful stories have lots and lots of conflict. If we avoid conflict, our stories won't be meaningful.

Believing in God is as much like falling in love as it is making a decision. Love is both something that happens to you and something you decide upon.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

Everybody wants to be fancy and new. Nobody wants to be themselves. I mean, maybe people want to be themselves, but they want to be different, with different clothes or shorter hair or less fat. It's a fact. If there was a guy who just liked being himself and didn't want to be anybody else, that guy would be the most different guy in the world and everybody would want to be him.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.