I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I tend to be pretty secretive about what I'm working on.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

One of the things I associate with God is a sunrise. How many sunrises have you missed over the years, and God created that?

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.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious system that can be experienced but not explained.