I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

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.

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision.

Modeling was pretty difficult back then. I did not find the business something that I had an interest in. I wanted to be a veterinarian.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.