When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.

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.

That's what we all do : endlessly take the long way around.

Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot.

I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

You couldn't make a cheap drama. That would be too low-budget. Drama has to have good photography and well-known actors.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

I was also just strong and quick - it wasn't hard for me to learn how to dance. I was a natural at it.

I love school. I was a great student.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.