Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

Every human being has to build a secret temple in his soul where he can shelter himself and find himself again and again.

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

We should not be frightened by appearances.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

A man's relationship with the Bible is an exact picture of His relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

The only way to continue to have a robust economy is to out-innovate other nations.