If you never forgive you'll always be alone.

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha. Why is that so hard for my fellow Christians to grasp?

At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.

The quality of your life is determined by how you feel at any given moment.How you feel is determined by how you interpret what is happening around you,not by the the events themselves.

He doesn't move his face when he talks. His eyes are like shark eyes. Dead.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I was studying biochemistry textbooks.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?