The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something. And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

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

Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.