I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer?

Only move forward with creating a product that will be "above the bar.

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good.

Greatness comes through serving. The more you serve, the greater you become

I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle.

Sometimes you divorce a part of yourself to save yourself emotionally.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

The only thing you can do to make me that angry is to lie with another man" ~ Raphael, Guild Hunter, Nalini Singh

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest.