Worm theology is too high for me.

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Get low; grace will meet you there.

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Leaders should be the chief repenters.

Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.

May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Nothing else in the whole wide world matters as much as avenging your sister.

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

It's not your salary that makes you rich, it's your spending habits.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

I think it's important to keep the audience interested. But the best advice that I've gotten is to live in the moment. Sometimes you can get too into your head when you're in a scene.

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

I have no interest in teaching writers how to sell. I want to teach them how to write. If the process is sound, the product will take care of itself, and sales are likely to follow.

Today, writing seems to me like an incredible luxury, almost a perversity, something which hardly exists in the world anymore, where you get to see the fruits of your actions in a daily way.