We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.

If I use the Bible to prove I am right, I have yet to be humbled by the beautiful truths of the Bible.

I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.

When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

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