A hundred years from now? All new people.

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.

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

To come out and meet kids who have my books in their hands is kind of amazing.

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

I'm a TV junkie. I'm always flipping through channels.

The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.