The thing I loved about her was that I never felt like she was selling anything. She would talk to God as if she knew Him, as if she had talked to Him on the phone that day. She was never ashamed which is the thing with some Christians I had encountered.

Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

No love is conditional. If love is conditional, it’s just some sort of manipulation masquerading as love.

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.

I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

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.

Half the time I don't know what I'm trying to say.