I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

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.

My soul hunger for the living bread.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

For me, Christmas is about family, loving, forgiveness, compassion, understanding and comradery.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

The basic fact of today is the tremendous pace of change in human life.

Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full.

You are now free to leave the FAYZ.

The most learned, acute, and diligent student cannot, in the longest life, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume.