It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

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

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

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

He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.