Lets choose to do something really difficult, something that saves lives, and let's do that thing with people we love.

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.

I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

I think the things we want most in life, the things we think will set us free, are not the thing we need.

The heart responds to the conflict within a story.