We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

A story is based on what people think is important, so when we live a story, we are telling people around us what we think is important.

I always thought the Bible was more of a salad thing, you know, but it isn't. It's a chocolate thing.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.

I listened so hard because it felt like, while she was telling me stories, she was massaging my soul, letting me know that I was not alone, that I will never have to be alone, that there are friends and family and churches and coffee shops. I was not going to be cast into space.

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

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.