What I believe is not what I say I believe; what I believe is what I do.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

The thing about new things is you feel new when you buy them, you feel as though you are somebody different because you own something different. We are our possessions, you know. There are people who get addicted to buying new stuff. Things. Piles and piles of things. But the new things become old things so quickly. We need new things to replace the old things.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

I do not believe a person can take two issues from Scripture, those being abortion and gay marriage, and adhere to them as sins, then neglect much of the rest and call himself a fundamentalist or even a conservative. The person who believes the sum of his morality involves gay marriage and abortion alone, and neglects health care and world trade and the environment and loving his neighbor and feeding the poor is, by definition, a theological liberal, because he takes what he wants from Scripture and ignores the rest.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.