I take a lot of inspiration from the people I work with, and having many collaborators keeps me challenged and inspired.

I'm a sucker for double meanings in titles.

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the unromantic, daily hard work.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

Theater and music are both collaborative media, and I think they're best when they combine different people's visions and aesthetics.

Every day I wake up, there's a little part of my brain that's thinking I might die in a terrorist attack today.

It's an incredible privilege to be able to sit in front of a computer and spend a few hours just thinking and writing.

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Most of us go through this journey of grief at different speeds

Every New Year brings its sacred blessings.

Talent is unfair and undemocratic

Do it big or stay in bed.

Sadness puts my heart in a prison.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

By the way, Howard Zinn's History of America is front and center at the gift shop of the New York Historical Society. The New York Historical Society is deluged with school kids on a daily basis.

Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.