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.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.

The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

I think if you like somebody you have to tell them. It might be embarrassing to say it, but you will never regret stepping up. I know from personal experience, however, that you should not keep telling a girl that you like her after she tells you she isn't into it. You should not keep riding your bike by her house either.

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

A story is a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.