To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.