All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

We have to have positive male role models.

Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help

Instead of asking what it feels like to follow God or be used by God, we should be asking who God is, and whether we really know Him. Everything else will take care of itself.