The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.

Somehow I had come to believe that because a person is in need, they are candidates for sympathy, not just charity. It was not that I wanted to buy her groceries, the government was already doing that. I wanted to buy her dignity. And yet, by judging her, I was the one taking her dignity away.

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

The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

It is when people do not allow God to show up through them ... that the world collapses in on itself.