You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

Before you realize this truth, say the Yogis, you will always be in despair, a notion nicely expressed in this exasperated line from the Greek stoic philosopher Epictetus: 'You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.

If you want to know the world, sometimes you have to get out and roll around.

As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at it as a writer, and you just admire the architecture and the construction.