I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else--it's in myself...I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits.

I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.