I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are some guys who don’t believe in God and they can prove He doesn't exist, and there are some other guys who do believe in God and they can prove He does exist, and the argument stopped being about God a long time ago and now it’s about who is smarter, and honestly I don’t care.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

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.

All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.