He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Emotions are the colors of the soul.

Jesus is not the 'founder of Christianity.

The God of Evangelical Christianity is a Monster.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

You are free to love without an agenda

You have to take the time to prepare the soil if you want to embrace the seed.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense is expressing their own journey through such a wilderness.

The intricacy and the inherent beautiful fragility of the human soul is such that it is uniquely damaged and only God knows how to heal it, and it's going to take time.

Once upon a time, I wish I had sneezed. The end.

Every revolution begins with breakfast, ’ I quoted as they left. ‘Is this your revolution, Jaxon?

Perfection is real. It occurs when you find that other part of you, that other person, that when combined you become one, perfect being.

Even when we make mistakes, we hope others will love us in spite of our shortcomings - even if we don't deserve it.

One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?

McDonald's is over with. But chips and candy and stuff, it's going to be hard to get away from that.

In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine.

If I had to last 20 years, I would probably be batting in a wheelchair.

free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight.

I always had a feeling, for example, that there should be something from Verdi's "Requiem" in the film. You hear it when you see the lava flow in Iceland. That turned out to be a very easy choice.