THINGS JESUS NEVER SAID: "You should come with me to church.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

You cannot be a Christian without being a mystic

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story