It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

I didn't know how story worked. So, when writing the screenplay, people introduced me to the science of it. And I'm grateful. I'll probably use that information for the rest of my career, in terms of writing novels or writing stories. And then, of course, to help me live a better story, a more meaningful story

All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.

Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

We don't need as much as we have. Hardly any of us need as much money as we have. It's true what they say about the best things in life being free.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.