Imagination only fails us in the end, when the stories we tell ourselves have to stop.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others.

Books are more honest than the world. If you want to understand people, listen to what they make up.

What we used to settle with common sense or a fist, we settle with hand sanitizer and lawyers.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man...God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Everything I do is a matter of heart, body and soul. For me, designing is an expression of who I am as a woman, with all the complications, feelings and emotions.

He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.

I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist.

The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.