Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

All good work requires self-revelation.

hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.

If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.

We seem never to know what any thing means or is worth until we have lost it.

Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.

Because of Jesus' finished work of the cross, He will never be angry with you nor rebuke you even when you fail.

The highest level of creativity consists in being, not doing.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore.