After Daskalos returned to his armchair and was getting ready to continue our discussion I asked him whether the affliction of that man was due to karmic debts.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

God never cooperates with evil. He simply offers us the opportunity to transform the painful experiences in our lives into advantages and blessings. (Fr. Maximos)

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys, ” but as our Father.

Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

Singles are your safest songs on the records. Ones that piss fewer people off, that appeal more to the masses.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Food is love, for my body, wellbeing, and the animals that go unheard every day.

We forget, we have a short memory and we're human. This morning my Scripture was Isaiah 26:3, which said, Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee for he trusteth in Thee.

As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.

You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.