And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Nothing is going to change in congo until you and i figure out what is wrong with the person inside the mirror

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

I tend to write first drafts that are incredibly cognitive, very rational, very boring. They come off as justification. Like, 'This is my idea and here's all the reasons that it's right.' It doesn't make for very compelling reading.