Sunday morning church service is not an enormous priority; spending time with other believers is.

The most attractive characteristic in a person is the story they are telling the world. We stop and stare at stories.

Even our beliefs have become trend statements.

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.