He said to me I was a tree in a story about a forest, and that it was arrogant of me to believe any differently. And he told me the story of the forest is better than the story of the tree.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us.

Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.

I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.