It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.

I see a lot of marriages crash and burn around me and my wife. I've always been curious about how hard it is to love well and be loved.

Fear is a ghost; embrace your fear, and all you’ll see in your arms is yourself.

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from the character's point of view and see where it goes.

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.

I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have gone to war after The Iliad.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting soundwhere sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound

True friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

In all my eleven years of itinerant ministry I cannot recall any growing church which does not encourage small groups

The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.

"Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you." "I know the feeling."

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting.

Moshe Dayan, who donated his eye to CBS. Never got a dinner!

Keeping your body in shape is a spiritual discipline. Its not just about losing a few pounds, wanting to live longer, or trying to look nicer.