The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

Something in the heart of most human beings simply cannot abide pain inflicted on the innocent, especially children. Even broken men serving in the worst correctional facilities will often first take out their own rage on those who have caused suffering to children. Even in such a world of relative morality, causing harm to a child is still considered absolutely wrong. Period!

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.