...I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

...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.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

The thing about being irresponsible is it's only cute till you are about twenty-two or so, then it becomes a liability. One day you wake up under a pizza box, the television blaring in your bedroom, the laundry piled up over what might be a bedside table, and you ask yourself: 'How did my life get like this? Why don't people like me? Didn't I have a cat and what is that smell?'

If you don't feel free and be yourself, you can't connect. Find people who accept your quirks. They'll heal your soul.

It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we were more willing to accept each other's depravity we'd be more united, we'd be more honest. If you hide two things from me, I'll assume you're hiding a million. And I'll keep you at a distance. I'm not afraid of the evil in you. It's in me too.