People want to join a great story. If you want to lead, tell one with your life.

I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

If you buy the website, maybe you'll do something with it. But so far I haven't; we'll see.

Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.