If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Basketball allowed me to revere my father without him knowing what I was up to. I took up basketball as a form of homage and mimicry.

Fierce praying was a way of finding entrance and prologue into my own writing.

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

An author must gorge himself on ten thousand images to select the magical one that can define a piece of the world in a way one has never considered before.

I wanted to be curious and smart and unappeasable until I got a sentence to mean exactly what I ordered it to mean.

There is nothing as delicate, as stunning, and as vulnerable as the heart.

The wind considers how trauma is - in essence - just a memory that violates previous memories too barbarically, an event that devastatingly conflicts against everything else one knows.

Be strong in the Lord.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

I don't really wanna know what makes you leave, or when you'll be back.I just wanna know what will make me cry at your arrival.

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.

Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?