I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

Before I can become an expert on anything, I must first become an expert on me.

The ultimate umpire of all things in life is - fact.

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.

I work out every day - and my daily routine is a mix of functional and strength training.

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

I know my mom said as early as she can remember letting me watch TV, my one treat a week when I was like 6 was to stay up and watch 'Saturday Night Live.'

In time, the church will actually be organized more as a military force with an army, navy, air force, etc.

A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.