What's scary is the unknown, the stuff you can't put your finger on.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.