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.

If the abortion issue is important to me, this is how you tackle that issue.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

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

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.