You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

For exercise, I now run with my chocolate Lab puppy, Oscar.

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.

Appearance rules the world.

Entrepreneurship is not a civilized joust. It is streetfighting.

It's fun when you're driving, and people wave at you, and you wave back. I think you either like people or you don't. I mean, I don't want to put on sunglasses. That's why I'm in show business.

Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

You have before you the task of seeking new ways to announce Christ in situations of rapid and often profound transformation, and of emphasizing the missionary character of all pastoral activity.

Golf is a very serious part of my life, but when you stop having fun at it, that's when it's time to hang it up.

And I've been wearing specs since I was three.