At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.

Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

Syria is attracting a lot more Westerners than the Iraq War ever did because it's the perfect Sunni jihad.

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Love , creativity, and opportunity is in the air. Take it in and do your thing.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

When God has access to our heart, mind, and soul through years of fellowship and worship, He allows us to see more of His activity and to be more involved in His miraculous work.