I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.

Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body.

I love to give to charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.