The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

I think, writing-wise, I am probably more of a quilter than a weaver because I just get a little scrap here and a little scrap there and sew them together.

I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

If you want a religion that makes sense, then I suggest something other than Christianity. But if you want a religion that makes life, then, I think this is the one.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.