Anybody who wants to get their way says that Jesus supports their view. But that isn't Jesus' fault.

Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.

Today I wonder why it is God refers to Himself as 'Father' at all. This, to me, in light of the earthly representation of the role, seems a marketing mistake.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things.

When one of my friends becomes a Christian, which happens about every 10 years because I am a sheep about sharing my faith, the experience is euphoric. I see in their eyes the trueness of the story.

Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Everybody wants to be somebody fancy. Even if they're shy.

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place.

I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.

I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility.

Sane people did what their neighbours did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.

Tears are not a mark of weakness.They just prove that your heart is alive.

The arctic loneliness of age.

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.

I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.

I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history.

The guy [Bill Clinton] was a known, let's say, "raconteur."

The quality of our lives depends on the quality of our minds.