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.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

Marriage is a sort of poetical see-saw.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.

I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.

Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.