A LIE IS LIKE A BAD NEIGHBORHOOD

The real promise in too many promises is a promise that I’m going to be disappointed.

And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

A mother's lap is the strongest hub and school of each religion. In other words, the mother breezes and waves the religion since she is the religion.

Conversion is the lifelong process of turning away from our plans and turning toward God's maddening, disruptive, creativity.

Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

Maybe love isn’t supposed to be comfortable. Maybe love is just supposed to be worth it.

I did one sci-fi movie. I did 'Gattaca.' I liked 'Gattaca' because that was always the kind of science fiction I really dug, the non-action oriented sci-fi.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

Everyone is born with some special talent.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.