The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.

You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

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.

I don't find anyone more noble than Jesus.

You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.